Essential Questions: How did trade routes between the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia impact civilization growth and expansion? How does the geography and cultural characteristics of regions contribute to the formation of trade routes?
Learning Objectives: Students will Identify specific national boundaries and geographic features of Europe and Asia, become familiar with technology and maps of Europe and China. Students will use a variety of map sources including Google Earth and the textbooks. Students will comprehend a variety of resources and then generate 2 visual representations of the impact of the “Black Death” in Europe in the 1350s.
Assessment: Class discussion, individual responses to questions worksheets. Final Assessment will be used for the SGO – Written Response to Primary Document, a Visual Representation (poster.)
Monday 10/05, Tuesday 10/06 – Students Primary Source Document – The Black Death agnolo_di_tura_on_the_black_death. Short answer Response to the questions https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1-b0W-duW6LkDzfhGoa1zHeiddP_HHn7VZyGgfx3_0Fo/viewform?embedded=true“>Here.
Wed-Friday. 10/07 – 10/09 Crash Course Disease! 11:36 – Students will generate 2 visual posters about the black death. One will be filling in a map that tells the story of the plague and the other poster would be a warning posted in Europe at the time about how to avoid the plague. Here is the google Doc and here is the NPHSWorldBlackDeath -pdf.
Monday – 10/12 – European Geography – Barriers to Trade from the East and West – Euro- Guesser, Google Earth/ Free Apps.
HW: Finish video questions if Necessary.
Essential Understanding: Interactions along the Silk Roads were the major economic engines during the late Middle Ages. This brought science, engineering, but also plague and misery to millions.
World History - NPHS Huggins 