This activity is specifically designed for a field trip to Drayton Hall, which is a historic plantation near Charleston, South Carolina. It does provide a model of how a similar activity could be designed for a local area, and there are materials on Drayton Hall online that may be useful. In this activity, students study the history of Drayton Hall and the surrounding area, right back to prehistoric times using paleogeographic maps, which are provided. Afterwards, students would research the site of their school and draw similar maps.