UNDERSTANDING HISTORICAL, PHYSICAL, POLITICAL, RESOURCE, PRODUCT, AND ECONOMIC MAPS

THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO HMMMMM? What has changed in our community in the last five years? (LIKE: new roads, shopping or business areas, housing developments, and areas for recreation.) Are most of these changes human-made? Are there physical changes that have affected the area? What are some examples of physical changes affecting a place? (Possible responses: rivers can flood; shorelines can change; and volcanoes and earthquakes can affect a place.)

Boston 1775 Boston was settled on a peninsula…(Why?) Changes… How did this area change over time? What physical changes could have happened?

Boston Today Compare the maps from 1775 and today… What changes do see you notice? (consider natural and made-made phenomena) Why did these changes possibly occur? Think E.S.P.En.(ask please) How does the map show how people’s lives have changed over time?

Population? maps are useful for showing how the cultural landscape of a city changes over time, but graphs provide different kinds of useful information. What info can you get from this graph that you can’t from the maps?

Use info from both maps & population graph, completing a Venn diagram that compares and contrasts Boston in 1775 and today.