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Hi Darlena - maybe you can find a student's study guide of the Civil War at a teachers' supply store or online resource. For example, this site http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson/lesson186.shtml features a number of different activities that you can modify to suit your patients' abilities. The Photo Sharing/Story Telling, Cost of War, even making some recipes (or just tasting!) might be good activities.

This Gettyburg site details what the soldiers did to combat boredom - you might also get some ideas from that. Many board games, whittling, music and other activities that are interesting.

http://www.nps.gov/history/museum/exhibits/gettex/games.html

It might also be interesting to rent some of Ken Burns' do...entary "The Civil War" and show segments from that, and host a discussion group. I'm sure many of your residents will have war stories of their own.

Good luck! Please let us know what you come up with.

-- Contributed by: TK2

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I'm looking for activities for seniors in wheelchairs related to the Civil War. We'd like to have a "Civil War Day" and have the residents play some physical games reminicent of the Civil War that are not too taxing. Any ideas?

-- Contributed by: darlena

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Hi Tyler - your Mental Vitality class sounds like a lot of fun! I'm not sure I understand your question, however - you want a website that will help you create a definition or summary for the class? What is the definition or summary for - a brochure or a flyer or something? Please give us more infomation and we'll see how we can help.

-- Contributed by: TK2

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I am starting a class in a few months for a group of senior citizens. The class is called mantal vitality and we do alot of word puzzles and memory games, etc. I have been trying to come up with a definition or summary for the class but I am drawing a blank. Do you know of any good sites on the web that might be able to help me out? Thanks.

-- Contributed by: Tyler Rogers
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