HistoricAdventures with Jasztalville

 

When you teach about state history, you must not forget these components-

-Which city is the oldest in your state? If you’re in Florida, you’re in great luck- St. Augustine is also the oldest city in the United States!

-Have your students learn about local government as well as the executive and legislative branches in your state.

-If possible, have them meet the mayor of your city! My students actually had the opportunity in the 2006-07 school year.

-Teach about the Indian tribes that dwelled in your state at one time as well as those who still reside in your state now.

-Was your state on the Union or Confederate side during the Civil War? Or had your state not joined the Union yet?

-What wars did your state fight in?

-What laws were made in your state’s history?

-Who are the people in your state’s history? For Florida, we have Henry Flagler, Osceola, Thomas Edison, Andrew Jackson, Ponce de Leon, Pedro Menendez de Aviles, Henry Plant, and many others.

-How about cultures? In Florida, we have a Greek culture in Tarpon Springs.

 

You shall never forget…

Try to have as many artifacts or objects that explain your state’s history as possible!

 

Okay, so you’re in Florida? Maybe we’ll write sometime! Yet in the meantime, please do not forget these resources-

 

Other A+ Sites for History

 

Below are lessons my students have about St. Augustine over the course of the year. Though they aren’t all taught at once, I still refer to it as my St. Augustine unit.

St. Augustine Unit standards-

SS.A.6.2.3.4.1 (people and events)

SS.A.6.2.3.4.2 (colonial period of Florida; Spanish and British)

SS.A.6.2.2.4.1/2 (shipwrecks and treasures)

 

 

Brochures

 

Brochure Search

Students will be receiving and going through their St. Augustine brochures, which include two city maps and brochures on the Alligator Farm, Fort Mose, the sightseeing trains, Anastasia State Park, and the St. Augustine Lighthouse.

SS.A.1.2.2.4.1

Ship Life and Shipwrecks

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SS.A.6.2.3.4.1

 

Florida’s Living History- St. Augustine

http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/staugustine

 

Students will be able to see some excavated artifacts today through this presentation.

 

Ponce’s Search-

Students will also read Ponce’s Search as a class.

 

Locating Capes, Harbors, and Bays

Students will make a list of capes, harbors, and bays on the coasts of Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas. They will use an atlas. 

 

Life on a Ship

Students will read a sheet about a Spanish galleon.

 

Keeping A Sea Journal

Students will hear Richard Henry Dana’s journal entry, and then they will write their own sea journal entry.

 

Aboard A Spanish Galleon-

Students will make a model of a Spanish galleon as well as read about life on the galleon. They will learn that there are three main decks in a galleon.

 

Reference-

·         http://www.nhm.org/education/cahistory/galleon/

·         MAP- Spanish Route in the 1500s

 

Dwellings [Indians]

 

Indian Architecture

Students will view images-

-Apalachee Life (16)

 

http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/digital/

collections/Teachers/Readings/

UF00025127.pdf

SS.A.6.2.6.4.1

 

Hands-On Timeline

 

Hands-On St. Augustine Timeline-

Students will view this awesome timeline first-

http://www.staugustine.

com/king/timeline.shtml

 

Students will complete a timeline of St. Augustine where they will have to glue or tape down different illustrations to different parts on a timeline. They will read descriptions that will give them hints on where to place the illustrations.

(Ms. Jasztal-created material)

 

(Ordering of events)

Forts… and People Who Had To Do With Forts

 

Students will be introduced to these vocabulary words this week- [words from the National Park Service]

-barrier island

-blockade

-brazier

-cistern

-coquina

-creole

-galleon

-garrison

-midden

-moat

 

PART TWO-

BUILDING THE OLDEST CITY

 

Apalachee Militia In A Spanish Fort (22)

http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/digital/

collections/Teachers/Readings/

UF00025127.pdf

 

Summary- First Colonies

http://www.eduplace.com/ss/

hmss05/bkd_fl/ilessons/pdf/

ils_fl_gr4_u2_c03_l2.pdf

 

Life In Early Indian Villages

Students will adapt the assignment below [this one is about Franciscan Friars and religion, though I am adapting it to make it appropriate for all students] and write about life in early Indian villages. They will have to write two “journal” entries for one “day” in their life.

 

What is important about the friars coming to the Indians is that the Indians were taught to read and write for the first time. Many Indians were appalled, yet they learned readily.

 

http://fga.freac.fsu.edu/places/missions.htm

 

SS.A.6.2.3.4.2

Virtual Tour of the Castillo de San Marcos

http://www.staugustine.com/king/castillo_flash.shtml

 

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/castillo/castillo.html

 

Discussion: How do you think it would have been to experience the Castillo de San Marcos in the 1600s and 1700s with forces acting against you?

 

Dwellings

 

Homes of Historic St. Augustine

Students will have comprehension based on the early Spanish, the British, and the Second Spanish periods. They will also make a vocabulary book.

 

http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/digital/

collections/Teachers/Lessons/

Elementary/LP21.pdf

 

Students will have play practice today…

 

Students will practice for the St. Augustine play. The practice will include blocking techniques. We will also focus on intonation and inflection.

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LA.C.3.2.3.4.1

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The Planning of a Colonial Town

 

Students will view the image “The Community Meets in the Plaza.” They will then design a city based on the central location of the plaza. They will also add different shops from the colonial periods, such as the apothecary and blacksmith as well as a friary. They will also draw a plan for a fort as well as a waterway by the fort.

 

Second Fort Mose Sketch

http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/digital/

collections/Teachers/Readings/

ftmose.pdf

 

St. Augustine, 1740

http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/digital/

collections/Teachers/Maps/

UF90000078/bwhole.pdf

 

Community Meets in the Plaza

http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/digital/

collections/Teachers/Readings/

UF00025127.pdf

 

Students will also have to make a colonial guide based on the different components they must include in their city plans.

 

SS.A.6.2.3.4.2

Archaeology in Florida

 

Archaeology and Excavation-

 

Students will hear about archaeologist Chuck Spencer from AMNH first.

 

http://www.ology.amnh.org/

ologist/spencer/index_static.html

 

Students will read a selection titled Under the Waters of St. Augustine.

 

Florida Shipwrecks and Treasures [MAJOR Resource for Field Trip]

 

http://fcit.usf.edu/florida/

lessons/shipwrecks/shipwrecks1.pdf

 

Words to know about archaeology

http://www.oldesthouse.com/words.pdf

 

Create Your Piece of History-

Imagine you are an artist who designs and decorates pottery for people in your community. Your next assignment is to decorate a flowerpot. Imagine your community is abandoned over the centuries. Buildings collapse and many personal belongings are broken and buried. Your precious flowerpot is shattered and scattered among the ruins.

http://www.ology.amnh.org/

archaeology/stufftodo/pottery_do.html

 

SS.A.6.2.2.4.2

SS.A.6.2.3.4.1 (archaeology in early exploration)

Lighthouseology- Comparing the St. Augustine and Ponce Inlet Lighthouses

 

Information About Lighthouses [Preparing for Science chapter on sound and light]

 

Fresnel Lens

Students will hear some information on what a fresnel lens is, and then they will develop an informational note card about it.

 

Lighthouse Ratings-

Students will compare the ratings for Ponce Inlet Lighthouse with the St. Augustine Lighthouse. They will make a brochure for each lighthouse based on those ratings. They will participate in a brochure contest as well.

 

PONCE-

http://www.lighthouseratings.com/Ponce/

 

AUGUSTINE-

http://www.lighthouseratings.com/Augustine/

 

LA.A.2.2.7.4.1

 

Lighthouse Keepers… In Their Day

 

A Day in the Life of a Delaware Lighthouse Keeper

(Stories written by kids)

http://www.ocean.udel.edu/

coastday/2006%20Winning%20Essays.pdf

 

Abbie Against The Storm-

Written by Marcia Vaughan-

 

Abbie Burgess helps her father care for a lighthouse on a small island off the coast of Maine. Together they tend the lamps, organize supplies, and watch the endless Atlantic waters. When Abbie’s mother becomes ill, her father must sail to the mainland to find food and medicine. Seventeen-year old Abbie will be left alone to care for the lighthouse that guides so many ships to safety.

 

SS.A.6.2.3.4.2 (colonial period)

St. Augustine Math

 

-There are 129 steps in the St. Augustine Lighthouse. If you walk up once and then walk down once, how many steps have you taken?

-If a lighthouse keeper in his time had to take the same steps 12 times up and 12 times down in one day, how many steps did he walk?

-The perimeter of the Castillo de San Marcos is 1,509 feet. If the four sides of the fort are equal, what is the length of one side of the fort?

 

Fort Mose

 

Living The Dream- Students will hear Living The Dream read, a story by Gertie Laws (who is a teacher in St. Augustine). Comprehension exercises will develop based on the few chapters that will be read.

 

Example Discussion Questions: Chapter One-

-How does the narrator describe the Indians’ clothing on page 2?

-How does Papa feel about having a black captain in the army? How does he feel about joining the army? (Pages 5-6)

-What is a big worry of the blacks living in Spanish Florida? (Page 6)

 

Students will all have a copy of Chapter One to look at.

 

Summary- Anna realizes her dream. She finds herself living a new life at Fort Mose, the first free Black settlement in America. She embraces her freedom and new friends, only to have everything destroyed by war. Can she rebuild her dream?

 

After we are done reading, students will read about the Oldest House-

 

History of the Oldest House

http://www.oldesthouse.com/oldhousehistory.pdf

 

SS.A.6.2.3.4.2