life 100 years ago in san diego : how has san diego changed over time?

Life 100 Years Ago in San Diego:

How has San Diego

changed over time?

Same or Different?

• What does it mean to “change over time”?• What types of things can change over time?

Can places….? Can things or inventions…? Can people…?

Change over time - Places

Mission Valley

What has changed over time?

1912

1951

Change over time – Places

Mission Valley, 1977

Change over time – Places

A lot has changed!

1912

1977

Change over time - Inventions

The telephone

invented - 1870s

Change over time - Inventions

The Automobile

invented - 1885

Change over time - Inventions

The electric toaster

invented 1909

Change over time - People

Clothing changes too!

Change over time - People

What do you think

this was worn for?…School?

…Playground?

…Party?

It’s a bathing suit!!

Bathing suits have definitely changed over time!

People who helped change San Diego over time

• Mary Chase Walker

• Ah Quin

• Kate Sessions

• George Marston

Mary Chase Walker - Teacher

• First school teacher• “Old Town”

Ah Quin – The “Mayor of Chinatown”

• Chinese Immigrant• Spoke English and

Chinese• Helped other

Chinese immigrants

Kate Sessions -The “Mother of Balboa Park”

• Horticulturist• City Park /

Balboa Park

George Marston - San Diego’s “First Citizen”

• Marston House• Serra Museum• SDHS

Are YOU the next San Diego History Maker?

How can we work together to make San Diego a better place to live? Now, and for the future?

Tomorrow’s History

Maybe some day 100 years from now, there will be students sitting here learning about how we

lived…

What/ Who will they learn about?

Future President ? Barak Obama

Words we should know!

Chronological- Arranged in numerical order

Ex. 1,2,3,4,5 or 1800, 1900, 2009…

Timeline- Dates and/or important events written on a line in the order that they happened

1500 1600 1700 1800 1900

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