Specification
Learning Outcomes
Teaching and Learning Activities
Resources
Content
Introduction to Early
Exploration
Students will be able to:
Understand and explain
the influence of different
factors that helped
stimulate early exploration.
Identify and explain the
motivations of early
explorers.
Students will answer the following questions that will be
discussed as an introduction to European exploration.
1. What are the reasons for space exploration?
- Colonization; seeking resources; curiosity;
international cooperation opportunity
(international space station);
2. What have been some technological spin-offs (laptops,
solar power, better batteries, cordless power tools,
preserved food); communications systems
development; intelligence (spying).
3. What may go through the mind of an astronaut?
4. Should humans be exploring space? Why or why not?
Making Inferences
Being able to make inferences is an important historical skill
that all students should practice. Based on the reading
“ Foundations of European Exploration” students infer what
the conditions were like to stimulate exploration in the 1400’s.
Homework Task
Students complete the table “THE FACTORS BETWEEN
THE CRUSADES AND 1492 THAT CAUSED
EUROPEANS TO EXPLORE”
Students complete the tasks using their textbooks and
classwork and write the answer in extended answer question
style.
H/W: Students complete the assigned reading Task
Beck et al (2009)Modern World
History – Patterns of Interaction,
McDougal and Littell pp. 94 101
Foundations of European
Exploration (word)
Factors that stimulated early
exploration (word)
Age of Exploration reading
(word)
Columbus
Students should be able
to:
The teacher will begin with a background reading on
Columbus using the worksheet who was Columbus. Columbus
is often referred as a hero or villain, why?
Evaluate documents using
SOAPStone and analyze
them for POV.
The Columbian Exchange
Beck et al (2009)Modern World
History – Patterns of Interaction,
McDougal and Littell pp. 94 101
Who was Columbus (word)
Student complete the Columbus inhabitants worksheet
Run to the Hills – make notes on the negative aspects for the
indigenous peoples. – brainstorm positive aspects for
indigenous
Columbian Exchange
Document Analysis (word)
Christopher Columbus Hero or
Murderer (word)
Document Analysis
Using the worksheet the students will examine the documents
and determine the positive and negative effects of the
Columbian Exchange. Students will then analyze the POV of
two of the documents.
H/W: Students will read the article “Columbus: Hero ot
Murderer?” and discuss via Todaysmeet.com
Link to the article:
http://campuspages.cvcc.vccs.edu/polis/2003/
nonfiction/whitney%20dewitt.amlit.htm
Jared Diamond: Guns, Students should be able
Germs and Steel
to:
Assess the impact of
European Exploration on
the Americas
Students complete the questions that supplement the video.
Worksheet on Diamonds
Conquest (word)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgYZ6gfqslQ
Plenary / Review
The effects of European Exploration on the Americas
DVD Player
Speakers
The effects of European
Exploration on the Americas
(ppt)