Using some reflective thought, they also can spell out the factors that turn seemingly ordinary places into special historic places.
Students can then begin to assess buildings in their own communities from a historical perspective.
The Time Perspective A variety of dates, periods, and major events appear in the lesson. One way to put them together into a meaningful sequence is to use a time line. Have students construct a time line with a scale of dates down the center of the page. Ask them to select 10 significant events from the information in this lesson and write them to the left of the dates. Ask students to use the right-hand side of the time line to label historical periods, using their American history textbooks for reference.