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Lesson 1 Activity 2: A Place in Time
In groups of two, select a place to study, and note how it has changed over time. Choose an old city near you or a famous place anywhere.
Time
Two 50-minute class periods.
Materials for each pair of students
- Books, articles, maps, photographs, and other information about the history of your place
- Continuous-feed computer paper (about 6 feet long)
- Scissors
- Tape
- Markers
Procedures
- Study the history of a place. Find out who settled there, when, and why. How did they make a living? Who else did these people have contact with? As time passed, when and how did the place change? When, why, and how did the population grow? How did the relationship between this place and the surroundings change? How did this place function in the context of the immediate area and in the world? How did this function change? How did world events affect this place?
- Make a timeline on which to record information you collect about the place from its founding to the present. Summarize the history of the place by dividing its history into periods and labeling the periods.
- Illustrate the timeline with sketches or photographs from newspapers, magazines, or other sources.
- On a base map of the area, sketch a map of the place for each period.
- Display timelines all review them for aspects of effective presentation: color, lettering size, organization, size and style of maps, etc.
Glossary
| dead reckoning |
Greenwich time |
landmark |
latitude |
| longitude |
magnetic compass |
mappa mundi |
marine chronometer |
| photogrammetry |
planetable |
planisphere |
portolan chart |
| remote sensing |
sextant |
surveying |
theodolite |
| triangulation |
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