Integrated Literacy

Assignment

Kelsey Faber

GLCE: U1.4.4 Describe the Columbian Exchange and its impact on Europeans, American Indians, and Africans.

The Columbian Exchange Chart

This chart shows what plants, crops, and diseases were moved between the Old World and the New World.

Population GraphThis graph shows how the number of Indians and Europeans in the New World changed after 1492.

Artwork

To introduce this topic, one idea is for students to complete a 10x10 activity. Have them think of 10 observations and 10 questions about the artwork.

Chapter Book

Who Was Christopher Columbus? by Bonnie Bader

Lesson Plan Idea

Another Lesson Plan Idea

http://msh.councilforeconed.org/lessons.php?lid=68379

New World/Old World food and disease trading.

Video Clip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbrNDwXYBao

This YouTube video gives an overlook at the Columbian Exchange and how it affected the people and the economy.

Website

http://public.gettysburg.edu/~tshannon/hist106web/site19/Website discussing the Columbian Exchange in relation to technology, disease, animals, and plants. -Europeans brought new technology, such as written language, to American Indians-Disease spread between the New and Old World, making its way through Africa and into Asia-Horses were brought to the New World for transportation, labor, and food for American Indians-Potatoes and Maize were two important plants brought back to the Old World

Another Website/Activity

http://wgvu.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/midlit11.soc.splcol/the-columbian-exchange/Short online activity/worksheet about the positive and negative effects of the Columbian Exchange

Content Magazines

Activity Book

Teacher Reference Book

This book is a great teacher reference book about the Columbian Exchange.

Song

The Columbian Exchange(sung to the tune of Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star)

The Columbian ExchangeStarted trading long agoMany items became new

To Natives, Europeans, tooDiseases came from far and wide

Wiped out Natives - many died

Many Natives got a treatHoney, bees, and some wheat

They now had pigs and some sheepSugar made their coffee sweet

Don’t forget the knives and gunsThat came from Europeans

Europeans, they did getCorn, beans, squash, and chocolate

Turkey and tomatoesPumpkins and tobacco

On the land, they learned to plowAnd the Natives showed them how

Political Cartoon

After students know more about the topic, have them brainstorm their own political cartoon or joke about the effects of the Columbian Exchange from the perspective of either the Europeans, American Indians, or Africans.

SourcesBader, B., & Harrison, N. (n.d.). Who was Christopher Columbus?

The Columbian Exchange (n.d.). In Middle School World History. Retrieved October 25, 2015.

The Columbian Exchange (n.d.). In WGVU Learning Media. Retrieved from http://wgvu.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/midlit11.soc.splcol/the-columbian-exchange/

Crosby, A. W. (1972). The Columbian exchange: Biological and cultural consequences of 1492. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

Explorers poem and Columbian Exchange song (2015, September 20). In YouTube. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syNLZY3ff4Q

Haworth, N. (Narrator). (2012). Columbian Exchange [Online video]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbrNDwXYBao

History of the Columbian Exchange (n.d.). In Columbian Exchange on North Carolina. Retrieved October 25, 2015, from http://columbianexchangeonnorthcarolina.weebly.com/

Malone, C., Gray, S., Ross, S., & Ryan, K. (n.d.). The Columbian Exchange. In Young Teacher Love. Retrieved from http://public.gettysburg.edu/~tshannon/hist106web/site19/

Sources (continued)

Nannini, K. (2013, January). Social Studies Freebies and Ideas - The Columbian Exchange. In Young Teacher Love. Retrieved from http://youngteacherlove.com/social-studies-freebies-and-ideas/

Reis, R. A. (n.d.). Christopher Columbus and the Age of Exploration for kids with 21 activities.

The Value of Study Abroad in the Age of Digital Reproduction (2012, August 7). In Not Hemingway's Spain. Retrieved from http://nothemingwaysspain.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-value-of-study-abroad-in-age-of.html

https://www.google.com/search?q=the+columbian+exchange&espv=2&biw=1280&bih=652&site=webhp&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAWoVChMIoI29zsjhyAIVxkomCh1Qfg-G#tbm=isch&q=columbian+exchange+population+chart&imgrc=GKSl3cruTv84aM%3A

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