Have your students compare their lives today with life in rural Florida in the 800s. Demonstrate the ways places acquire names in Florida and what they tell us about our history, people and environment. Exercise students' visualizing, imaginative, and creative skills. Show them ways in which historic roots, climate, environment, technology, safety and defense dictated how a building was contructed. Introduce your students to the immediate and long term effects of hurricanes on Florida's heritage through deadly hurricanes in historic times.
Historical resources belong to everyone.
Explore the concepts of historic preservation and heritage and encourage your students to confront current events and historic places. Take your students back in time to the Second Spanish Period of 1783-82. Everybody knows the Civil War was fought in the South, but there are few sites in Florida. One, located at the bottom of the St. Johns River, has produced thousand of artifacts. Before there were cars, airplanes, or even railroads, there were steamships.