Lesson 1: Age of Exploration
Duration of Days: 5
Lesson Objective
1. Analyze the motives for exploration and conquest by European nations
2. Trace the Age of Exploration and its effect on Africa
3. Explain the impact of the transatlantic slave trade on the African people
4. Trace the Age of Exploration and its effect on Asia
Why did European leaders want to expand their empires and how did colonization impact other regions?
India, Africa, Asia, Hundred Years' War, Vasco da Gama, barter, Age of Exploration, China, colony, Japan, Ferdinand Magellan, astrolabe, missionary, Cape Town, compass, Hernán Cortés, merchant, Jacques Cartier, Silk Road, proselytizing religion / universalizing religion, Prince Henry the Navigator, Johannes Gutenberg, Dutch East India Company, France, Ibn Battuta, slavery, Marco Polo, Congo River, Bartolomeu Dias, John Cabot, goods, trade, line of demarcation, Europe, Samuel de Champlain, Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Middle East, shogun, Great Britain, pirates, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Ptolemy, Spain, caravel, Gobi Desert, Muslims, England, Christianity, Treaty of Tordesillas, South America, plantation, slaves, Hernando de Soto
RH.6-8.1 Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources.
RH.6-8.3 Identify key steps in a text’s description of a process related to history/social studies (e.g., how a bill becomes law, how interest rates are raised or lowered).
RH.6-8.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary specific to domains related to history/social studies.
WHST.6-8.4 Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
DOK 3- Strategic Reasoning
3a. Implementing instructional content for learning
Text is leveled to meet the needs of a variety of students
Some questions will also be leveled for students of differing abilities
Review sheet and open notebook quiz or a cumulative project