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Columbus To The Colonies Lesson Plan

This lesson plan focuses on teaching 8th grade students about European colonization in North America. The central focus is on the "Three Gs" that motivated exploration - gold, God, and glory. Students will learn how colonists developed the land economically and impacted native Americans. They will analyze a map of the triangle trade route. The lesson introduces key vocabulary and concepts through a presentation and worksheet activities. Students work in groups to read about colonization before discussing as a class. The goal is for students to understand the economic, religious and prestige factors that drove Columbus and other Europeans to the Americas.

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Columbus To The Colonies Lesson Plan

This lesson plan focuses on teaching 8th grade students about European colonization in North America. The central focus is on the "Three Gs" that motivated exploration - gold, God, and glory. Students will learn how colonists developed the land economically and impacted native Americans. They will analyze a map of the triangle trade route. The lesson introduces key vocabulary and concepts through a presentation and worksheet activities. Students work in groups to read about colonization before discussing as a class. The goal is for students to understand the economic, religious and prestige factors that drove Columbus and other Europeans to the Americas.

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Columbus to the Colonies

Grade Level: 8th Grade Number of Students: 25 Instructional Location: Classroom Date: 10/28/2023

Lesson Goals
Central Focus of Lesson:
From the time Columbus first set foot in the New World, Europeans were fascinated with this new land. In this American
colonization lesson, students learn about the “Three Gs” that drove them here—gold, God, and glory—and find out how these
settlers gave America its start, developed the land economically, and impacted Native Americans and Africans.

Standard(s) Addressed:
9.4.3.10.5 Assess the social and demographic impact of the Columbian Exchange on Europe, the Americas and Africa.
(Emergence of the First Global Age: 1450-1750)
9.4.4.16.1 Analyze the consequences of the transatlantic Columbian Exchange of peoples, animals, plants and pathogens on
North American societies and ecosystems. (Colonization and Settlement: 1585-1763)
9.4.4.16.2 Compare and contrast the motivations for exploration, conquest and colonization in North America by different
European nations. (Colonization and Settlement: 1585-1763)

Lesson Objectives and Demands


Content Objectives:
Students will be able to:
 Explain the three main reasons behind European exploration/colonization in North America: economics, religion, and
glory.
 Explain the impact of European colonization on Native Americans.
 Describe the source of labor for the development of the colonial settlements.
 Analyze a map of the triangle trade route.

Language Objectives:
Students will be expected to utilize the following words and phrases in showing their understanding of the content:
 Raw vs Manufactured Goods
 Motivation
 Interpret
 Analyze

Key Vocabulary in Lesson:


 Empires
 Cash Crop
 Merchants
 Indentured Servants
 Raw good
 Manufactured good

Lesson Considerations
Materials:
 Student worksheets
 Map projection master
 Projector
Prior Academic Learning and Prerequisite Skills:
Students will need to know:
 How to identify key map features
 How to analyze a text and search for context clues
 How to determine a timeline from a text

Misconceptions: Identify common misconceptions regarding the concepts addressed in this lesson
 Common misconceptions that will be addressed are:
o Where Columbus reached in the Americas, and how he never actually went to where the current day United States is
o That some motives of Columbus were ill-intentioned
Lesson Plan Details
Lesson Introduction –

To introduce the lesson, I will give a short 5-10 minute presentation, and introduce students to Columbus and give a short background on him.

I will introduce the purpose, being that this lesson is important to pull out contextual information from readings and learn more about the “founding” of

My attention getter will be having students discuss as a class what they believe to be the founding of America, and how it came to be found. This is a
misconceptions listed earlier. This will also allow me to get a general understanding of what students knew before coming into the lesson and build o

Lastly, I will introduce key vocabulary that students will need to know to be successful in the lesson.

Learning Activities - “During”:

35-40 minutes

After having students discuss what they already know on Christopher Columbus and the founding of America, I will break them into groups of 3 at ran

I will then pass out the work sheets for the class. Students will be advised to read and work on the first four pages of the work packet together as a g
around the room and listen in on any main ideas students are gathering and answer questions that need to be answered.

Once all students are done with working on the packet, we will come back together as a class and go through the main ideas and the answers to the

Closure - “After”:
Through this lesson, students should know how to answer the question what drove Christopher Columbus to the Americas, how did it impact
was trade important in the new colonies.

Students will be tasked of completing the final page of the work packet for homework.

The end of this lesson allows for students to reflect on this new gained knowledge as we talk about what they learned as a class.
Extension:
If time permits, I will have students write down one way that they view Columbus discovering America as a negative and one way as a positive. This
about the new information they just learned and form opinions on the new information. I will then collect these and have students who, are willing to s
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