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CREDITS PROJECT TEAM: SCHOOL DISTRICT OF HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF BOARD OF ADVISORS PALM BEACH COUNTY TABLE OF CONTENTS PALM BEACH COUNTY Cressman D. Bronson BOARD MEMBERS Katharine Dickenson Casey Lipschutz, Education Coordinator Chuck Shaw, Chair Geographic Location, Debi Murray, Chief Curator Mark B. Elhilow Debra Robinson, M.D., Vice Chair George T. Elmore Frank A. Barbieri Jr., Esq. Land, and Climate . Pgs. 3-6 SCHOOL DISTRICT OF Mr. & Mrs. William M. B. Fleming Jr. Karen M. Brill MARTIN COUNTY Dennis Grady Erica Whitfield Shela Khanal, Director, William Graham Marcia Andrews Florida’s Early Department of Title I/Migrant/ELL Dale R. Hedrick Barbara McQuinn Native Americans . Pgs. 7-10 Pat Seaton Johnson SCHOOL DISTRICT OF Gary S. Lesser SUPERINTENDENT PALM BEACH COUNTY The Honorable Karen Marcus Donald E. Fennoy II, Ed.D. Colonial Florida . Pgs. 11-14 Lisa Lee, Principal, William A. Meyer CHIEF ACADEMIC OFFICER Orchard View Elementary Penny Murphy Keith Oswald Debbye Raing (Retired) Carey O’Donnell Territorial Florida Pgs. 15-20 Margaret S. Newton (Retired) Harvey E. Oyer III Jorge Pesquera DIVISION OF TEACHING AND Danielle Trembler, Writing Team Leader LEARNING Christel Akers Sidney A. Stubbs Jr. Statehood to RADM Philip A. Whitacre, USN (Ret.) Diana Fedderman, Assistant Superintendent Maria Calas Mary Ann Colbert, Manager the Civil War.....Pgs. 21-24 Mary Ellen De Valle Kristen Rulison, Manager Allison Dobrick EX-OFFICIO BOARD MEMBERS Cori Evans Debra Robinson, School Board of Palm Beach DIRECTOR, MULTICULTURAL SPECIAL INSERT: (1-X11) Gale Fravel County Member A Story of Agriculture: Danielle Hickox Moore, Town of Palm Beach EDUCATION Daisy Linares Francisco Oaxaca Growing Things in Palm Beach Heather McCarroll Council Member Tom Medcalf Mack Bernard, Palm Beach County County K-5 SOCIAL STUDIES PROGRAM Jen Minuskin Commissioner PLANNER/HOLOCAUST STUDIES Eve Preefer BENEFACTORS PROGRAM MANAGER The Early Pioneers Pgs. 25-28 Roberta Privalle Thomas Anderson & Marc Schappell Maureen Carter Dr. Roger Rivner John Archer Sandy Trujillo Brenda McCampbell Bailey ELEMENTARY SOCIAL STUDIES Cynthia Vagedes The Flagler Era and Margaret Cheryl Burkhardt RESOURCE TEACHER Boom to Bust ....Pgs. 29-32 Jacqueline Zloch Susan & Christopher Cowie Laureene Neubarth Martha DeBrule HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF Mark B. Elhilow George T. Elmore The Great Depression PALM BEACH COUNTY Frances & Jeffrey H. Fisher to World War II . Pgs. 33-36 OFFICERS 2019-2020 Anneli & Robert W. Ganger Lorrain & Malcom W. Hall Thomas M. Kirchhoff, Board Chair Post-World War II Ross W. W. Meltzer, First Vice Chair Pat Seaton Johnson Mark Stevens, Second Vice Chair Russell P. Kelley to Present .......Pgs. 37-43 Richard S. Johnson Jr., Secretary Carol & Thomas M. Kirchhoff Thomas Burns, CPA, Treasurer Sanda & Jeremiah Lambert Joseph Chase, Member at Large Patricia Lambrecht Robert W. Ganger, Member Emeritus Patricia Lester Sydelle Meyer Pauline Pitt BOARD OF GOVERNORS Jeffrey Alderton J. Grier Pressly III Christian Angle Deborah & Chuck Royce John Archer Frances G. Scaife Margaret Cheryl Burkhardt Caroline Sory Sharon Daley Sonja & Mark Stevens Graham G. Davidson Annette Stubbs George L. Ford III Mary Freitas STAFF The Honorable Bradley G. Harper Jeremy W. Johnson, CAE, President & CEO Russell P. Kelley Debi Murray, Chief Curator George Mavlios Rose Guerrero, Research Director Sharon Merchant Casey Lipschutz, Education Coordinator Peter Nicoletti Caroline Frazier, Marketing Coordinator Lisa McDermott Perez Sharon Poss, Office Administrator Karen Swanson Lise Steinhauer, Membership | Grants Keith Williams Rhonda Gordon, Volunteer & Outreach Vernique Williams Coordinator Alice Randolph, Development Coordinator Jeff Ault, Museum Services Copyright © 2019 The School District of Palm Beach County, and the Historical Society of Palm For additional education resources, including Traveling Trunk Program, Mock Trials, Beach County and Museum tours, visit http://www.hspbc.org/education/. 3 GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION, LAND, AND THE CLIMATE THE Standards: SS.4.G.1.1: Identify physical features of Florida. SS.4.G.1.3: Explain how Florida’s Geographic weather impacts Florida. SS.4.G.1.4: Interpret Location political and physical maps Florida is the southeasternmost state using map elements (title, compass rose, cardinal in the United States. It is a peninsula, directions, intermediate which means it has water on three sides. directions, symbols, legend, scale, longitude, latitude). To the east of Florida is the Atlantic SS.4.G.1.In.d: Identify Ocean, to the west is the Gulf of Mexico, information provided on maps using the title, and to the south are the Straits of Florida. compass rose, cardinal To the north are the states of Alabama and intermediate and Georgia. directions, symbols, and key/legend. Our state has a unique shape, which SS.4.G.1.Su.d: Recognize information provided on makes it easy to locate on a map. The a map by its title, cardinal northwestern part of the state is called directions, symbols, and key/legend. the Panhandle, because it is shaped like Florida’sFlorida’s AncientAncient ShoShorelinesrelines LAFS.4.RI.1.1: Refer to the handle of a frying pan. Two important 10,000 yearyearss agagoo details and examples in a text when explaining what cities in the Panhandle are Pensacola and 8,000 years ago the text says explicitly and Tallahassee, the state’s capital. At the tip 6,000 years ago when drawing inferences of south Florida rests a string of islands from the text. 5,000 years ago LAFS.4.RI.2.6: Compare called the Florida Keys. The most famous DQGFRQWUDVWDÀUVWKDQG of these islands are Key Largo, Marathon, and secondhand account Maps courtesy HSPBC. of the same event or topic; and Key West. describe the differences in YROFDQRHV ÀOOHG LQ WKH WUHQFK OHDYLQJ Today Florida has several types of focus and the information only a shallow sea. The sand and shells of landscapes, including lowlands, highlands, provided. LAFS.4.RI.3.7: Interpret The Land dead marine animals fossilized to form and wetlands. The lowlands DUH ÁDW DQG information presented DOLPHVWRQHSODWHDXRUDUHDRIÁDWODQG are found at the Atlantic Coastal Plain visually, orally, or Between 300 million and 400 million quantitatively (e.g., in years ago, north Florida was separated 7KLV SODWHDX ÀQDOO\ URVH XS WR IRUP D and Gulf Coastal Plain, which is mostly charts, graphs, diagrams, marshy plain at sea level. covered by grasslands called savannas. time lines, animations, or from swampy south Florida by a body interactive elements on of water called the Florida Trench. Then During an Ice Age about 100 million Barrier islands, common along both Web pages) and explain 200 million years ago, lava from active years ago, the water level of the ocean coasts, are low, narrow strips of land how the information dropped as the water froze, which that protect the mainland from stormy contributes to an understanding of the text created glaciers that left Florida twice seas. in which it appears. its present size for thousands of years. The different regions of Florida are LAFS.4.W.1.2: Write informative/explanatory When the last Ice Age ended about cut by waterways: bays, inlets, lakes, texts to examine a topic 12,000 years ago, the ocean levels rose rivers, and canals. The canals are man- and convey ideas and information clearly. again, and the climate became warmer made to move water from one place SC.4.N.2.1: Explain that and wetter. Part of Florida remained to another and for boat travel. The science focuses solely on underwater, which today we call the Intracoastal Waterway is a canal along the natural world. continental shelf. This shelf slopes gently Florida’s coastline and stretches from into the ocean, and at its edge, the water Maine to Texas. becomes very deep. Over time, the The Florida Highlands are hills and constant rising and falling of water levels RWKHUODQGPRUHWKDQÀIW\IHHWDERYHVHD helped form the three land regions that level. They are found in the Panhandle currently exist in Florida: the Atlantic and down the middle of the state. Coastal Plain, Florida Highlands, and Gulf The last type of Florida landscape is Coastal Plain. wetlands, a lowland in which the water A cypress swamp. Map Skills: level stays near or above the earth’s surface. The Everglades, 1. On a map, identify the a huge wetland in the southern part of the peninsula, is only locations in this section. about eight feet above sea level at its highest point. (see page Test Your Knowledge: 43, The Everglades) 1. When people go to the beach on the east coast of Florida, what ocean do they The Climate swim in? Florida has a mild climate. The temperature never gets 2. A peninsula has water on three sides. very cold, because its southern tip is near the equator. Areas in the Panhandle and north Florida, get cold in the winter. a. Is Florida a peninsula or an island? The state’s lowest recorded temperature was on February 13, 1899, when it dropped to (minus) –2 degrees Fahrenheit b. What bodies of water surround Florida? in Tallahassee up in the Panhandle! Florida’s climate is good for growing crops and for enjoying warm weather activities 3. North and south Florida were separated millions of all year long. years ago. What separated Florida is also known for its wetness. Rain averages more ^ĂƚĞůůŝƚĞƉŝĐƚƵƌĞŽĨĂŚƵƌƌŝĐĂŶĞ͘രറരŽƵƌƚĞƐLJdŚĞWĂůŵĞĂĐŚWŽƐƚ͘ them? in Florida than in most other states. Our rainy season is from 4. What three land regions May to November. Florida residents pay close attention to Beach, with a population over 102,000. The northernmost were formed by the constant rising and falling of the meteorologists’ forecasts during these months because community is Tequesta, the southernmost is Boca Raton, and water levels? this is when thunderstorms, tornadoes, tropical storms, and the westernmost is South Bay. hurricanes typically occur. Activity: Florida’s climate attracts many people. Some come to visit, 1. Choose one of the Barrier Islands and Waterways while others live here during the winter and return to the landforms in this section, The series of barrier islands along the coast of Florida North for spring and summer.