Digital Map

Students will create a layered map that demonstrates the significant geopolitical changes throughout this imperialist period. This graphically instructive, digital document, will distinguish these five content elements in separate layers:

➔ 1900 Political boundaries (pre-war)

➔ 1914 Alliances emerge (road to war)

➔ 1914-1918 Fronts and Battles (course of the war)

➔ 1919 European political boundaries after the Treaty of Versailles (post-war) ➔ 1920 Cultural groupings: language and religion

Students will utilize their design and layout skills from previous units to create these layers using industry appropriate software such as Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, or Photoshop. Each layer will include a key with symbols to represent the boundaries, alliances, fronts, battles and include annotated captions.

By utilizing emerging mapping technologies, students will produce an electronic product outlining geographical locations and dates of specific battle fronts. Specifically, students will create interactive maps depicting the changing Eastern and Western fronts and should utilize barcodes and QR codes as a means to present certain pieces of historical information or provide editorial commentary, and to reinforce creativity and use of current technology. Working from outline map templates, the students will manipulate digital shapes, color and text to visually describe movement and fluctuation of territories on specific fronts and illustrate how geography could help or hinder allied and axis advances. Suggested programs:www.padlet.com,​ www.statsilk.com,​ Red Laser, QR reader, Dipity, Google Earth, Powerpoint, Illustrator, Photoshop, http://www.the-qrcode-generator.com/#/