🗺️ Maps, Timelines, and Land Claims

Students examine territorial maps, statehood timelines, land advertisements, and migration visuals to connect message framing with political and geographic change. In pairs, they annotate where expansion claims, Union politics, and economic motives appear in visual evidence, then add cause-and-effect notes tied to Indigenous nations and land use. The class closes with a brief evidence share-out that distinguishes observation from interpretation.