Seamlessly Teach Beginnings to Colonization in ANY Setting with Thematic Units!
This versatile digital resource is an entire thematic unit in one place! PDFs include complete teacher edition and editable student pages. Students simply type their answers in, save, and upload! Printable and projectable, this unit is perfect for seamless teaching in class, at home, or any combination!
Flexible design works in any learning environment, ready to upload to Google Classroom or any other learning platform!
Differentiated and supportive, with a solid mix of warmups, out-of-the-box activities, content and skills practice, graphic organizers, primary source analysis, and resources.
Activities include: Easy Debate: Should the New World Have Been Named After Columbus?, Prove It! Persuasion Station: Who Benefitted More from the Columbian Exchange?, and Document-Based Questions: The Great European Migration.
Ready to implement! No textbook, no problem. A historical context reading with bolded key vocab terms starts the unit.
Aligned to C3 and Common Core national standards.
Table of Contents
Setting Historical Context — Beginnings to Colonization Reading Warmups Content and Skills Practice
Native American Cultures Before 1500 CE
Native American Tribes by Region
Native American Homes
Chart the Explorers of the World
Positive and Negative Impacts of Exploration
Early America: Agree or Disagree
Dare Stones: Fact or Fiction? WebQuest
Answer Key
Graphic Organizer
PEGS: Analyzing Topics in Social Studies
SPRITE: Analyzing Topics in Social Studies
Primary Sources from the Period Hero or Villain Mini-Posters
Christopher Columbus
Hernán Cortés
Student Activity Pages
Easy Debate: Should the New World Have Been Named After Columbus?
Teacher Instructions
Student Activity Pages
Prove It! Persuasion Station: Who Benefitted More from the Columbian Exchange?
Teacher Instructions
Student Activity Pages
Document-Based Questions: The Great European Migration
Answer Key
Extension Activities for Student Assessment
Rubric
Standards Alignment
Middle school, high school. Reproducible. PDF download, 69 pages.