In this lesson, students will examine the history of the car in America and use their knowledge to evaluate the impact that automotive technology had on NC travel and city growth.
Using word association and early maps of North Carolina, students will examine their preconceptions about the state and connect them to what they learn. This assignment acts as a diagnostic assessment. The benefit of using colonial maps rather than a current map of North Carolina is that students can make a connection between discovery and progression in the creation of the state that they know. This is intended to be used before any lesson about colonial times or discovery of America in general?the students can consider themselves ?explorers? along with the ones they learn about.
In this lesson, students will look at highway maps to draw conclusions about the growth of towns and cities in the state over time.