Crossroads Middle School Social Studies Lesson Plan
Subject:
Social Studies
Building(s):
Teacher(s):
Medina
Date:
Title:
Columbian Exchange
Grade(s):
North
09/29-09/31
Standards & Objectives
(see standards for full description)
U.S HISTORY: America in the World 6.1.8
Era I: Three Worlds Meet (Beginnings to 1620)
1. Civics, Government, and Human Rights
2. Geography, People, and the Environment
3. Economics, Innovation, and Technology
4. History, Culture, and Perspectives
Era 2: Colonization and Settlement (1585-1763)
1. Civics, Government, and Human Rights
2. Geography, People, and the Environment
3. Economics, Innovation, and Technology
4. History, Culture, and Perspectives
Era 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754-1820’s)
1. Civics, Government, and Human Rights
2. Geography, People, and the Environment
3. Economics, Innovation, and Technology
4. History, Culture, and Perspectives
Era 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
1. Civics, Government, and Human Rights
2. Geography, People, and the Environment
3. Economics, Innovation, and Technology
4. History, Culture, and Perspectives
Era 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850 – 1877)
1. Civics, Government, and Human Rights
2. Geography, People, and the Environment
3. Economics, Innovation, and Technology
4. History, Culture, and Perspectives
WORLD HISTORY: Global Studies 6.2.8
Era 1: The Beginnings of Human Society
1. Civics, Government, and Human Rights
2. Geography, People, and the Environment
3. Economics, Innovation, and Technology
4. History, Culture, and Perspectives
Era 2: Early Civilizations and the Emergence of Pastoral Peoples
(3000-1000 BCE)
1. Civics, Government, and Human Rights
2. Geography, People, and the Environment
3. Economics, Innovation, and Technology
4. History, Culture, and Perspectives
Era 3: The Classical Civilizations of the Mediterranean World,
India, and China (1000 BCE-600 CE)
1. Civics, Government, and Human Rights
2. Geography, People, and the Environment
3. Economics, Innovation, and Technology
4. History, Culture, and Perspectives
Era 4: Expanding Exchanges and Encounters (500 CE-1450 CE)
1. Civics, Government, and Human Rights
2. Geography, People, and the Environment
3. Economics, Innovation, and Technology
4. History, Culture, and Perspectives
READING STANDARDS, LITERACY IN HISTORY/SOCIAL
STUDIES
Key Ideas and Details
1. Citing textual evidence
2. Determining theme or central idea
3. Analyzing historical series of events
Craft and Structure
4. Understanding words and phrases in context
5. Analyzing structure and format
6. Evaluating points of view
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
7. Integrating and evaluating multiple sources of information in
diverse media and formats
8. Evaluating arguments and claims
9. Analyzing, comparing / contrasting primary and secondary
sources, integrating information into a coherent whole
Range of Reading
10. Reading and comprehending grade-level texts independently
ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP IN THE 21st CENTURY 6.3.8
1. Civics, Government, and Human Rights
2. Geography, People, and the Environment
3. Economics, Innovation, and Technology
4. History, Culture, and Perspectives
WRITING STANDARDS, LITERACY IN HISTORY/SOCIAL STUDIES
Text Types and Purposes
1. Writing arguments focused on discipline-specific content
2. Writing informative / explanatory texts
Production and Distribution of Writing
4. Producing clear and coherent writing
5. Developing and strengthening writing
6. Using technology to produce and publish writing
Research to Build and Present Knowledge
7. Researching to answer a question
8. Gathering relevant information from multiple sources
9. Drawing evidence to support analysis, reflection, and research
Range of Writing
10. Writing routinely over extended time frames
SOCIAL STUDIES SKILLS
Chronological Thinking
Spatial Thinking
Critical Thinking
Presentational Skills
Crossroads Middle School Social Studies Lesson Plan
Connections:
(if applicable)
Interdisciplinary Instruction, Content Area:
Core Ethical Value(s):
Technology 8.1
A. Technology Operations and Concepts
B. Creativity and Innovation
C. Communication and Collaboration
D. Digital Citizenship
E. Research and Information Fluency
F. Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making
Career Education and Consumer, Family, and Life Skills 9.1
A. Career Awareness and Planning
B. Employability Skills
Career Education and Consumer, Family, and Life Skills 9.2
A. Critical Thinking
B. Self-Management
C. Interpersonal Communication
21st Century Themes:
Global Awareness
Financial Literacy
Civic Literacy
Health Literacy
Co-Teaching Model(s):
One Teach, One Observe
One Teach, One Drift
Parallel Teaching
Station Teaching
Alternative Teaching
Team Teaching
Objectives:
KNOWLEDGE COMPREHENSION
APPLICATION
ANALYSIS
EVALUATION
SYNTHESIS
Procedures
Do Now:
Objectives:
After examining stations of peoples, products, and diseases which comprise the
Columbian Exchange; reading a review of Alfred Crosby's Columbian Exchange; and
creating a chart about the pros and cons of the Columbian Exchange students will be able
to explain that the Columbian Exchange was the transfer of commodities, peoples, and
diseases back and forth across the Atlantic.
Define the term civilization.
Learning Activities:
1. Look at pictures of Aztec civilization.
2. Play funny clip of Bill and Ted's Bogus Adventure to show the intrigue and shock of
people from different civilizations coming into contact with one another.
3. Set up stations for various goods, diseases, and peoples that comprised the
Columbian Exchange. Ask students how they can connect the stations.
Crossroads Middle School Social Studies Lesson Plan
Learning Activities:
1. Look at pictures of Aztec civilization.
2. Play funny clip of Bill and Ted's Bogus Adventure to show the intrigue and shock of
people from different civilizations coming into contact with one another.
3. Set up stations for various goods, diseases, and peoples that comprised the
Columbian Exchange. Ask students how they can connect the stations.
4. Read a written piece about Alfred Crosby's "Columbian Exchange" and create a chart
5. Students will be then be given primary
Closure:
Ask the class what the Columbian Exchange is. Ask them to identify the diseases,
peoples, and products which were easily transferred.
Homework:
Create a pros/cons chart for the Columbian Exchange
Assessment: