World History Pacing Guide 2015-2016

Unit 1: Social Studies 101;
Exploration and Expansion(1450-1700)
(2 weeks) / North Carolina Essential Standards:
WH.H.1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4 / Concepts
Historical Thinking
Exploration
Expansion
Colonization
Essential Factual Content / Sample Resources / Vocabulary/Key People
Historical Skills
Historical inquiry is the research or investigation of past events;
Chronological thinking is the foundation of historical reasoning;
Historical analysis involves more than one source;
Change and Continuity;
Primary and Secondary Sources;
Five branches of Social Studies (History, Anthropology, Archaeology,
Sociology, Geography); How to read a map;
Physical features of a place may include: climate, landforms, soils, vegetation;
Exploration and Expansion
First Global Age: Europe, the Americas, and Africa-Conquest in the Americas-Christopher Columbus-desire for riches and religious zeal resulted in Spanish explorers traveling to the Americas; Spanish conquered Aztec & Incan empires (Hernan Corte’s and Francisco Pizarro;
Spanish and Portuguese Colonies in the Americas (Native American, African, and European traditions blended to form distinct cultures in the Americas (Mestizos, Mulattoes); Social Structure of the Spanish Colonies; British and French struggle for North America; French and Indian War and Treaty of Paris;
Turbulent Centuries in Africa (Africa and Atlantic Slave Trade); Conflicts in southern Africa with the Zulus and Boers; European exploration changes in Europe (global exchange of people, animals, food, plants, technology, and disease -The Columbian Exchange) / What is History?
In this lesson, young students will gain a frame of reference for understanding history and for recognizing that the past is different depending on who is remembering and retelling it.
Social Studies Skills Tudor

Teaching Primary and Secondary Sources

Primary and Secondary Sources Activity

5 Lessons for Teaching Map Skills
Create a Country
Students apply geography skills to create a map of an imaginary country. Included: Connections to every area of the curriculum! (Grades 3-12)
Global Economy: A Simple Activity
Encourage students to discover how we rely on our global neighbors by collecting data about where in the world the goods we use every day are produced. (Grades K-12)
Comparing Countries
A graphic organizer helps students compare and contrast two neighboring countries. (Grades K-12, Advanced)
Memorable Maps
This "memorable maps lesson provides students with a visual record of just how much they will learn about geography this year! (Grades K-12)
Earth at Night
Students use maps to identify the ten cities highlighted on an image of Earth at night as seen from space. (Grades 3-12)
Teachers.net (teaching geography hands-on)
SAS Curriculum Pathway-Columbus and the New World

Age of Exploration: The Columbian Exchange
Age of Exploration: Spain in the New World

Age of Exploration: Portugal’s Motives for Exploring Africa

Age of Exploration: The Transatlantic Slave Trade
/ Historical Skills
Prehistory
Historian
Historical Thinking
Archaeology
Geography
Timeline
Primary Source
Secondary Source
Cardinal Direction
Artifacts
Latitude
Longitude
Prime Meridian
Equator
Hemisphere
Age (BC/CE)
Era
Caravel
magnetic compass
astrolabe
Exploration and Expansion
Exploration & Trade
Plague
Slavery, Middle Passage
Columbian ExchangeTriangular Trade
Migration
colony
Conquest
Encomienda
Mercantilism
Capitalism
Exploitation
ethnocentrism,
Columbus
Henry the Navigator,
Cortez
Pizarro
Magellan
conquistadors
plantations
colony
assembly
13 colonies
Pilgrims
Treaty of Paris
Atlantic slave trade
Constitutional government
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