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Chapter 4: How and Why Europeans Came to the Americas
The Essential Question: What did explorers take to and from the New World during the Age of Exploration?
Overview Students learn how and why explorers set out for the New World in the late 1400s and in the 1500s. In the Preview, students list tools they would use to plan and take a family trip and the problems they might experience without these tools. In a Social Studies Skill Builder, pairs take on the role of underwater archaeologists to examine objects from an explorer’s ship. After reading about the objects, students categorize them as navigation tools, motives for exploration, or new products from the Americas. In Reading Further, students improvise act-it-outs to bring to life four key events of that time. In the Processing activity, students write an entry in an exploration log. Objectives Social Studies Component • Make connections between exploration in the 1400s and 1500s and exploration today. • Identify and record key information about objects on an explorer’s ship. • Categorize eight objects of exploration as one of the following: a navigation tool, a motive for exploration, or a newly introduced product from the Americas. Language Arts Component • Improvise act-it-outs of four key events of the period. (speaking and listening) • Write an entry in an exploration log. (writing) Social Studies Vocabulary New World, Age of Exploration, explorer, archaeologist, astrolabe, the Americas, cash crop, nation-state.
Test Study Guide
The objectives of this chapter shall serve as the first part of the study guide. In addition to meeting the objectives, students will be
asked to identify objects brought from Europe and objects found in the Americas. Students will be expected to explain the purpose each
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