9TH GRADE

Spring 2022 Learning Journal

Fall Learning Journal

10TH GRADE

Columbian Exchange

What is the Columbian Exchange?

 The Columbian Exchange is the process by which plants, animals, diseases, people, and ideas have been introduced from Europe, Asia, and Africa to the Americas and vice versa. 

What defining events caused the onset of exchange? 

European exploration, conquest, and settlement of the Americans.

Explain three items that were transferred/exposed to the other hemisphere. 

One was diseases exposed by Europeans brought deadly viruses and bacteria, such as smallpox, measles, typhus, and cholera, and plants and animals were also transferred.

Name one meal you love that includes ingredients from the two hemispheres. 

Grapes and turkey.

Explain what you did in the PBL project to help your group.

 I stirred the noodles, bought the grapes, and plated the food.