Introduction to Using Primary Sources: Travels Through Time

Maps tell us where we're going and how to get there, but they also can tell us where we've been. People make maps to order and describe their environment. Historical maps can tell us much about how people viewed their environment, and how that view changed over time. Maps add a powerful visual component to the exploration of history, from the Frontier through Westward Expansion, to Immigration, Industrialization and Urbanization, to the Space Age and Satellite imagery.

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Ohio Social Studies Academic Content Standards for this Activity

History 3-5

• Benchmark A: Construct timelines to demonstrate an understanding of units of time and chronological order.
• Grade 3, GLI 2: Place local historical events in sequential order on a timeline.
• Grade 4, GLI 1: Construct time lines with evenly spaced intervals for years, decades and centuries to show the order of significant events in Ohio history.
• Grade 5, GLI 1: Create time lines and identify possible relationships between events.

Geography 3-5

• Benchmark D: Analyze ways that transportation and communication relate to patterns of settlement and economic activity.
• Grade 5, GLI 10: Use or construct maps of colonization and exploration to explain European influence in North America.

Social Studies Skills and Methods 3-5

• Benchmark B: Use a variety of sources to organize information and draw inferences.
• Grade 3, GLI 3: Identify possible cause and effect relationships.

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