Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- The economic and cultural impacts on European society and American Indians by European exploration during the Age of Discovery.
- The significant early patrons and explorers.
- The development and impact of the Columbian Exchange.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Identify the geography of North America.
- Discuss the discoveries of Columbus and the exploration and conquests of Pizarro and Cortes.
- Explain the economic and cultural impact of European exploration during the Age of Discovery upon European society and American Indians.
- Identify significant early European patrons, explorers, and their country of origin.
- Locate significant early European settlements in the New World.
- Map the Columbian exchange.
- Explain how science, technology, and economic factors have developed, changed and affected societies throughout history.
- Explain how religious and philosophical ideas have been powerful forces throughout history.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- European exploration connected the old world to the new world creating both positive and negative changes across the globe.
Vocabulary
- economic impact
- cultural impact
- Age of Discovery
- patrons (King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella)
- explorers (Christopher Columbus, Ponce de Leon, Hernando de Soto)
- early settlements (St. Augustine, Quebec, Jamestown)
- Columbian Exchange
