Through a partnership with teacher Pat Miletich at the University School of Nashville and funding through an E.E. Ford Foundation grant, we have worked to develop a set of modules, lessons, and resource listings for teachers working in the social studies, US History and Government areas at the high school level.

The resources developed and available for  include the following:

• Information about Using Maps and Reading Maps
  • Map Projections
    • Lesson Guidance on Map Projections -For Teachers
    • Maps and a Round Earth
  • Additional Links
    • http://geoawesomeness.com/hidden-meanings-maps-13/
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUF_Ckv8HbE
• Lessons/modules
  • Investigating the California Gold Rush 1849
  • US Government – Campaigns and Elections Spatial Considerations Guidelines
  • Slavery an Servitude
    • Servitude and Slavery (PPT)
    • Slavery in the 18th c
    • Mapping Lynchings from primary source for classroom discussion/analysis
    • Transatalantic Slave Trade
  • Touring of a Historic Place – Student Story Maps (Example Provided of Fisk University, Nashville, TN)
• Additional Resources (books, links, etc.)
  • Geospatial Technologies Recommended Book List
  • Links to Lessons by Others
    • 15 Minute Story Map by Joseph Kerkski, ESRI
    • World History GeoInquiries (http://esriurl.com/worldHistoryGeoInquiries)
      • Cradles of Civilization
      • Silk Roads: Then and Now
      • Medieval Europe: Invasions
      • The Crusades
      • Trade and the Black Death
      • Russian expansion to the sea
      • Early European exploration
      • The Reformation
      • The first European industrial revolution
      • Latin American independence
      • The age of Napoleon
      • Africa’s bounty and borders
      • Post-WWI and The League of Nations
      • African independence
      • Cooperation since 1945