Let's Go to St. Louis!!

This is an activity to use for third through fifth graders to help students learn and understand how to make a timeline, how they work, and how to use them. This will also help student understand the history behind one of the most historical and influential cities in the U.S.

Standards

SS3 1.10, 1.6 - Identify and describe the significance of the individuals from Missouri who have made contributions to our state and national heritagee; examples include Lewis and Clark, Mary Easton Sibley, John Berry Meacham, Geroge Washington Carver, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Mark Twain, Harry S Truman and Thomas Hart Benton
SS3 1.6, 1.8 - Outline issues of Missouri statehood, such as the Missouri Compromise
SS3 1.10 - Summarize the events in westward expansion, including people’s motivation, their hardships, and Missouri as a jumping-off point to the West
SS 3 1.9 - Describe the changes in Missouri since the Civil War in education, transportation and communication
SS5 1.6 - Describe human characteristics of a place, (such as population composition, architecture, kinds of economic and recreational activities, transportation and communication networks, etc.)
SS5 3.8 - Use geography to interpret the past (e.g., why rivers have played an important role in human transportation) and predict future consequences (e.g., what will likely happen if the population of a city increases considerably)
SS7 1.10, 2.1 - Identify and create artifacts (building structures and materials, works of art representative of cultures, fossils, pottery, tools, clothing, musical instruments)
SS7 1.8, 2.1 - Create maps, timelines, diagrams and cartoons to enhance studies in civics, history, economics and geography

Credits

Standards found at: https://dese.mo.gov/sites/default/files/gle-social-studies.pdf

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Created by Nick Yochum and Clare Hildebrand