Unit 1: Native Americans/Colonial Developments

Unit Description: .

Stage 1- Desired Results

Essential Questions

  • What effects do geography and climate have on human culture and adaptation?

  • How has geography and culture impacted American settlement?

  • What were the effects of early American cultural exchanges?

  • What were the lasting effects of European colonization?

Enduring Understandings

Students understand that. . .

  • Geography and climate impacted the establishment of early American cultures and settlements in various social, economic and political ways.

Common Core Standards and Performance Indicators:

Unifying Themes:

    • Development, Movement, and Interaction of Cultures (MOV)

    • Geography, Humans, and the Environment (GEO)

    • Power, Authority, and Governance (GOV)

    • Creation, Expansion, and Interaction of Economic Systems (ECO)

    • Science, Technology, and Innovation (TECH)

    • Global Connections and Exchange (EXCH)

    • Individual Development and Cultural Identity (ID)

Social Studies Standards:

  1. History of the United States and New York

  2. Geography

  3. Economics

  4. Civics, Citizenship, and Government

Social Studies Practices:

    • Gathering and Using Evidence

    • Chronological Reasoning

    • Comparison and Contextualization

    • Economics and Economic Systems

    • Geographic Reasoning

    • Civic Participation

Common Core Learning Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy

      • RH: 6-8.1, 6-8.4, 6-8.7, 6-8.9, 6-8.10

      • WH: 6-8.1, 6-8.4, 6-8.5, 6-8.9, 6-8.10

Knowledge

Students will know. . .

    • the vocabulary and terminology connected to geography, culture, Native Americans, European exploration and settlement

    • the elements that make up culture

    • why and how early humans arrived in America

    • how geography directly affected human culture and settlement in Native America

    • why and how Europeans arrived and settled in America

    • the factors that led to an exchange of plants, animals and culture between America, Africa and Eurasia

    • what led to the decrease in Native American populations

    • why Africans were brought to America

    • foundations of permanent European colonial settlement

Key Vocabulary

  • geography

  • climate

  • culture

  • civilization

  • economics

  • sociology

  • exploration

  • conquest

  • colonization

  • mercantilism

  • charter

Key Terms/Events

  • Iroquois Confederacy

  • Crusades

  • Renaissance

  • Protestant Reformation

  • Columbian Exchange

  • northwest passage

  • Middle Passage

  • indentured servant

Skills

Students will be able to...

    • locate important information in digital and print sources

    • analyze various information sources and extract key information

    • organize information

    • write short and extended responses citing sources of information

    • compare and contrast multiple sources of information

    • complete graphic organizers

    • draw conclusions based on various sources of information

  • integrate information from several source to create theses

  • pair/share and present information and conclusions

Grade 7 NYS Social Studies Framework

  • examine theories of human settlement of the Americas

  • compare and contrast different Native American culture groups (specifically what became NYS), with an emphasis on geographic factors that led to their development

  • explain the significance of technology/science and the impacts they had on European exploration

  • examine early European exploration and the resulting "exchange" between Eurasia, Africa and the Americas

  • compare and contrast various European and Native American interactions (political, social and economic)

  • investigate the reasons for European colonization and geography's role in their varied developments

  • examine the political, social and economic characteristics of each colonial region with a focus on what became NYS

  • describe the origins of African slavery in colonial America, including the Middle Passage and the role of slavery in the various colonial regions

Stage 2- Assessment Evidence

Performance Task (summative)

DBQ Assessments 1 - 2: Clash of Cultures/Economic Opportunities (pgs. 1-9)

Virginia Company (Beyond the Bubble) Students will analyze a document about life in Virginia and test credibility based on the additional facts.

Mayflower Compact (Beyond the Bubble) students will analyze an image depicting the signing of the Mayflower Compact and determine if it is a reliable source.

Stage 3- Related Lessons

These lessons are aligned with the unit goals.

Examining Passenger List (from SHEG) Students will examine passenger lists to the New World and describe the types of people who settled there and where they settled.

Mapping the New World (from SHEG) Students will make inferences about the impact of geography on the survival and settlement of people in North America.

Early Encounters between Native Americans and Europeans (Gilder Lehrman) Students will analyze documents of early encounters between Native Americans and Europeans, and the perceptions that each had of the other.

The Doctrine of Discovery, 1493

(Gilder Lehrman) Students will read/analyze Pope Alexander VI's doctrine on the New World and Spain's claim.