Alabama Social Studies SS24.5.5d

Social Studies5th GradeProgressive Era and World War I

The Standard

Locate Alabama military training camps, ammunition depots, and the Port of Mobile on a map and explain their role in World War I efforts.

2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students find Alabama’s World War I training camps, ammunition depots, and the Port of Mobile on a map. They explain how each place helped the war effort.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student places Camp McClellan near Anniston, Camp Sheridan near Montgomery, and the Port of Mobile on the coast. They use a period map to locate an ammunition depot and explain that camps trained soldiers, depots stored ammunition, and the port moved supplies.
Common Misconceptions: Students may think a depot made ammunition rather than stored it. They may put the Port of Mobile inland or assume it was a training camp.
How to Assess It: Give students an Alabama outline map with Anniston, Montgomery, Mobile, and one World War I depot site marked. Ask them to label the sites and write each site’s wartime job.

Lesson moves

Give pairs an Alabama outline map and four site cards; have them place the cards and draw symbols for training, storage, and shipping.
Ask students to write two sentences explaining how ammunition could move from a depot to the Port of Mobile.
Play map relay: call out a camp, depot, or port; students point to it and say what happened there.
Use an Alabama rail map to trace a possible supply route from a mapped depot to Mobile, then explain why the port mattered.

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