Supporting Questions:

• Why is it important to treat maps and "history" as accounts?
• How do historians know and create accounts about the past?
• Why might historians have different and sometimes conflicting versions of the same event?

Lesson 1: What are Maps?

• Introduction to Maps Source Activity

Lesson 2: What Can a Map Tell Us?

• What are the Different Types of Maps? Source Activity

Lesson 3: What Does History Mean?

Lesson 5: How Do Historians Create Accounts of the Past?

Lesson 6: What Process do Historians Use to Investigate the Past?

Lesson 7: Tools to Organize & Analyze the Past: Social Institutions

Lesson 8: Tools to Organize the Past: Temporal Frames

Lesson 9: Tools to Organize and Analyze the Past: Using Spatial Scales

• What Common Geographic Features are There? Source Activity

Lesson 10: History as a Discipline

Lesson 11: Challenging the Power & Authority of the History Textbook