Maps Lesson I

In this lesson we’ll be building on your work within Omeka Neatline and incorporating several new techniques for explaining the past. Specifically, we’ll explore how classical Rome, Egypt, parts of North America, and China dealt the governmental and intellectual change.

1. Lesson Objectives

By the end of this lesson, students should be able to:

  1. Place two records into the Neatline exhibit “Ground stories”
  2. Correctly date each record
  3. Correctly locate each record within a city or define region no larger than a 10 mile radius using a line or other hand-drawn shape.
  4. Add an evidence-based explanation of how the record relates to another historical occurrence outside the record’s immediate geography.
  5. Set the zoom and focus of the record.
  6. Sign their name to their record in the “Description box.”
  7. Recognize the importance of sequence in telling a story on a GIS map.

2. Log in to our Omeka site at http://jacknorton.org/1101-fall–16-omeka/admin/users/login

http://jacknorton.org/1101-fall–16-omeka/admin/users/login

3. Open the “Ground stories” exhibit editor.

Click on the text “Ground stories”

4. Review the readings for this week, with attention to two events that have defined dates.

You may wish to open all the readings to start, and then focus on the two readings you wish to use. Your two records must be from different regions.

5. Create a “New Record” and explain why your record matters to something outside the region in your record.

  1. Choose an event that has a defined date. Give your event a brief title. The sample title I’ve given is way too long. You’ll see why this is bad later.
  2. Provide and exact quotation and citation from one of the readings for this week for your event.
  3. Below your quotation, write how your event relates to another event outside your events geography. For example, if my event is in the Han empire, I might note that having a similarly powerful empire at the same time (the Roman empire) allowed trade between the two regions.