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=Module 1 = = Travel in Time to 1776﻿ =



In your preparation for time travel to 1776, you decide to study maps and gather some resources. When you get there, what will be your travel plans? What cities and towns were in existence then? What do maps tell you?

Koppdelaney, H [photographer]. Time Flies. The Commons on Flickr. Retrieved from []


 * Activity 1-A **

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 * Take a look at this map, drawn in 1756. Yes, it was created twenty years before the beginning of the Revolutionary War, but it might be the best one you can find of this area of Pennsylvania.
 * A Map of the Province of Pensilvania
 * Just to help out, take a look at a map of Pennsylvania from 2006. What are the similarities and differences between the two maps?
 * Eastern Pennsylvania in 2006
 * Then download this worksheet and complete it by **analyzing the map from 1756** very carefully. Make sure you **//magnify the map//** so you can read what is written. Magnifying: use Ctrl +, De-magnifying, use Ctrl -
 * [[file:map_analysis_worksheet.pdf]]


 * Submit your completed worksheet as an assignment to your teacher.**


 * Activity 1-B **
 * Did you ever travel on the Bethlehem Pike? If you're not sure, ask someone in your family. Can you locate the Bethelehem Pike on a current day map?
 * Go to Google Maps. Type in Bethlehem Pike, PA. Try tracing the path of the Bethlehem Pike.
 * Read this article about the Bethlehem Pike, previously known as King's Road: The Bethlehem Pike
 * Here's a drawing that was created in 1730, and might help you to understand more about the significance of the Bethlehem Pike. An East Prospect 1730


 * Describe the route of the Bethlehem Pike in your blog, and discuss why the road might have been important to our local communities in 1776.**


 * Activity 1-C **

Now that you studied the maps and read about the Bethelehem Pike, what do you know about our part of Pennsylvania in 1776? What questions do you have?
 * In a blog entry tell us about what you know so far, and what questions you have. Respond to one of your classmate's ideas by choosing a significant question or fact in your classmate's blog entry and expanding upon the idea**.

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