Lesson Overview
Students will learn how maps are important primary resources for studying the past and how archaeologists can use historical maps to locate archaeological sites. This lesson plan covers how maps are two-dimensional symbolic representations of space, how different maps display different types of information, and how the map-making process has changed over time. Students will explore how maps, just like other primary resources, are subject to bias and systematic errors, something archaeologists must consider when using historical maps and plats.
Essential Question
How do archaeologists and historians use maps as symbolic primary resources, and what inherent biases or systematic errors must they consider when interpreting these historical representations of space?
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Other Instructional Materials or Notes:
3, 4, 7, 8
· Pens, Pencils, Markers and/or Crayons
· Paper for drawing
· Rulers
· Map Handouts (Optional)
· The Inevitable Evolution of Fort Frederick Documentary Film (4th & 8th grade)
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- 3.1.3.PR Identify the spatial hierarchy of political and physical geographic features
- 3.2.2.ER Identify and analyze the ways people interact with the physical environment in different regions of the state, the country, and the world.
- 3.4.1.PR Investigate the cultural characteristics of places and regions around the world.
- 3.4.2.HS Investigate the economic and land use characteristics of places and regions around the world.
- 3.4.3.AG Research and create a geographic representation of a contemporary or historic group of people to communicate findings about their cultural characteristics and livelihoods.
- 3.5.1.HS Investigate and explain the economic, social, and political motivations behind human exploration of Earth.
- 3.5.2.AG Use maps and other geographic representations to identify exploration patterns throughout Earth history.
- 3.5.3.HS Investigate and explain the economic, social, political, and environmental motivations behind human migration and how places can change as a result.
- 3.5.4.AG Use maps and other geographic representations to identify how migration patterns affect people and places.
- 4.1.CE Identify the effects of changing economic systems on the diverse populations in British North America.
- 4.1.CX Contextualize the experience of Africans, Europeans, and Native Americans in South Carolina.
- 4.1.CC Identify patterns of change and continuity in the development of economic systems in British North America.
- 4.2.E Analyze multiple perspectives on the economic, political, and social developments of the new nation.
- 7.5.1.PR Identify select North American physical systems and human characteristics of places.
- 8.1.CO Compare the three British North American colonial regions economically, politically, socially, and in regard to labor development.
- 8.1.CE Analyze the factors that contributed to the development of South Carolina’s economic system and the subsequent impacts on different populations within the colony.
- 8.1.P Summarize major events in the development of South Carolina which impacted the economic, political, and social structure of the colony.
- 8.1.E Utilize a variety of primary and secondary sources to examine multiple perspectives and influences of the economic, political, and social effects of South Carolina’s settlement and colonization on the development of various forms of government across the colonies.
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Lesson Partners: South Carolina Department of Natural Resources