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November 18th, 2024
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What Are Milestones Exactly?
Imagine you’re walking along a long road, and every few steps you see a sign that tells you how far you’ve come. These signs are called milestones, and they help you understand the distance between where you started and where you are now. In history, milestones are just like those signs—they help us understand how far we’ve come as a society, how much we've changed, and what we've learned along the way.
Milestones are key moments or events in history that show us how things have evolved. They mark important turning points—like when someone invented something new, when people fought for rights, or when a big change happened in the world. Each milestone in history helps us understand the challenges, successes, and growth of people and societies over time. These events often lead to new discoveries or ways of life, which makes them significant for future generations to learn from.
Milestones aren’t always big events that happen in the spotlight. Sometimes, they can be smaller, personal moments, like when a community comes together to solve a problem or when a person achieves something after a lot of hard work. Even though these moments might not make the history books, they still play a role in shaping who we are and where we’re going.
By learning about historical milestones, we can see how people in the past overcame challenges and worked together to create a better world. These milestones give us hope and inspiration for the future, reminding us that we too can make a difference. Just like the milestones you might see along a road, these historical events guide us on our journey, helping us understand how we got to where we are today—and where we might go tomorrow.
Bell-Ringer:
This first section is to be completed independently with no devices. Read the scenario and record your answers below.
Scenario: "We are a family, I am the parental unit and I come home and share the following with the family, 'I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is that I am being promoted in my job and I will make four times as much money as I make now, and I will increase your allowance by four hundred percent. The bad news is that we have to move to Snohomish, Washington'." (Apologies to Snohomishians, who undoubtedly have a wonderful city. It is used because it is generally not well-known to most Floridians.) "Since we are a democratic family, I will let you have some say in whether we go or not and since I know nothing about Snohomish, Washington, so I am assigning you the task of giving our family a complete picture of this city so we can decide if this is a good deal or not."
Record your responses to the following questions: "What questions do you think we need to ask to help the family get a picture of our potential new city? “What do you want to know about this new place?"
Reflect on the responses to the scenario and create categories based on your answers. Try to list as many of your responses under the category headings you created. Once this is completed, please share with a table partner.
Today's Lesson
2024 is a big year for Tallahassee, Florida as the city will be celebrating its bicentennial all year long! What is a bicentennial? It's the two-hundredth anniversary of a significant event.
A long time ago, back when Florida became a U.S. territory, it became clear that St. Augustine and Pensacola were not ideal choices for the seat of government. In the fall of 1823, two representatives—Dr. William Simmons from St. Augustine and John Lee Williams from Pensacola—embarked on a mission to find a more suitable location, one that had once been inhabited by Native American communities. They returned to the Territorial Government with enthusiastic reports about a region that was both beautiful and promising for development, describing it as“a more beautiful country can scarcely be managed, it is high rolling, and well-watered, the richness of the soil renders it perfectly adapted to farming.”
The city of Tallahassee was formally established on March 4th, 1824, statehood for Florida was achieved in 1845. Can you believe that the first capitol buildings included three log cabins?
Celebrating milestones such as a bicentennial allows for residents to reflect on the past and present and to plan and dream for the future. Milestones for Tallahassee include the following: establishment as Florida’s capital city in 1824, its Centennial year in 1924, and now the bicentennial in 2024!
Featured Activities
Story Mapping, as you seen above, is a cool way to combine maps, pictures, videos, and words to tell a story about a place, an event, or even a personal experience.
With ArcGIS StoryMaps, you can create a story that connects where things happened to what happened and why it matters. This helps us understand the world better and makes stories come to life!
Story Mapping is important because it lets us keep stories from our communities and families so they aren’t lost over time. When we make a StoryMap, we’re preserving history—our history—in a way that’s fun to make and easy for other people to explore. By sharing stories this way, we learn more about each other and the places around us. Plus, anyone who reads your StoryMap can go on a journey through your story, discovering new things about the world!
We encourage you to start thinking of potential story mapping ideas while you start playing around with the program. Use the video below, to learn all the cool features and tools ArcGIS StoryMaps has to offer.
Additional Resources
Kick off Celebrating Milestones with a copy of the Bell Ringer in worksheet form! This activity is design to spark curiosity in your students and exercise their abilities to ask clarifying questions.
Download the document to do this fun worksheet activity with your students!
In this lesson, students will learn about Tallahassee's Bicentennial and the long history of Florida. Included within are interactive activities, story maps, and videos to encourage students to learn about the state's capital.
Download the document to do these lessons with your students!
Previously on #FLGeoWeek:
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