Essential Question: What are the methods and motivations for European exploration throughout the 15th and 16th centuries? How does technology and trade influence European exploration?
Essential Understanding (SWUT): Using new-found technological advances from trade on the Silk Roads with the East, Europeans pushed outwards, seeking powerful economic and religious empires.
Learning Objectives (SWBAT): Students will understand the motivation and technology for the European age of exploration.
10/26 – EQ – How do sailors use the sun and the stars to navigate? Students will load the Star Chart Application on their iPads and find the Ecliptic. Students will define the Ecliptic and how the Explorers used it. Earth’s Orbit image, Path of the Sun image, Zodiac within the Ecliptic. – Plane of the Ecliptic Video – :48 Reasons for Age of Exploration PDF ,
10/27- EQ – What motivates the European Explorers? Graphic Organizer – Notes on- Ms. Beard’s Prezi – Students will review the Reasons for Age of Exploration PDF , Navigating the Globe Reading – Resources – The Caravelle Video- 3:00
10/28 EQ – What do the European Explores encounter in the Americas? Learning Objectives: Students will update the Exploration Graphic Organizer in the context of the Navigating the Globe Reading. (finishing up from Tuesday.) Class will read of the letter of Christopher Columbus Primary Document Analysis, – and answer questions. Resources – letter_by_christopher_columbus__1_, -If we have time Brain Pop – The Americas movie- Intro to Cortes and Pizarro.
10/29 EQ – What do the European Explores encounter in the Americas? Learning Objectives: Students will be introduced to the Introduce the Incas vs Aztecs – Compare and Contrast Assignment-. Interactive lecture – Brain Pop – The Americas movie- Intro to Cortes and Pizarro. Class will check in with Exploration Graphic Organizer. Students will start the movie Humankind, The Story of us All Episode – the “New World” at 27 minutes.
10/30 EQ – What do the European Explores encounter in the Americas? Incas vs Aztecs – Compare and Contrast Assignment- Dia De Los Muertos – A thinly veiled Aztec Tradition – CNN 10/29/15 2:30., National Geographic Version, Buzzfeed Version, in San Francisco, In Albuquerque, Cultural Appropriation or Assimilation?, The Book of Life official trailer 2:30.
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The Age of Exploration – Ms. Beard’s Prezi – Reasons for Age of Exploration PDF , Navigating the Globe Reading – Resources – explorer_technology- Herring, letter_by_christopher_columbus__1_, Hernando Cortés – History Channel – Exploration Unit 1 themes – , Inca Vs. Aztecs assignments- ,
Assessment: Class discussion, completion of graphic organizer. Completion of Aztecs/Maya Vs. Incas/Chan Chan comparisons.
World History - NPHS Huggins 
