Social Studies Curriculum

Three Worlds Meet (1400s - 1620)

Approximate Unit Length: 6 weeks

Text:
Creating America: A History of the United States, Beginning through Reconstruction
(McDougal Littell) © 2005

National Standards for
History:

Era 1
Three Worlds Meet (1400s to
1620)

Standard 1
A - D,

Standard 2
A, B

Alaska Content Standards:
History A - D

The students will understand that:

1. Migration is a universal phenomenon among all people. The impulse to explore new territories or lands has resulted in the diversity of many regions including the U.S.
2. The Columbian voyages set in motion long-range cultural, social, and economic changes for African, European, and Native American societies.

1. Why do people migrate?
2. To what extent do the interactions of immigrants and indigenous peoples impact each other in the new world?
3. How and why does geography effect settlement?
4. To what extent do conquest, colonization, and settlement establish and develop different economic, political, religious, and social institutions over time?
5. To what extent does our current diversity in the U.S. derive from early patterns of exploration and migration?