Isolationism and Closed Country Policy of East Asia
Colonies
Technological advances allowing for exploration
Teaching Ideas:
Students can research an explorer and create a modern social media project (twitter/facebook) of that explorers journey explaining the time it took, motives, technology used, achievements and results of the journey for their home country.
Resources:
The Age of Exploration http://mrgrayhistory.wikispaces.com/UNIT+13+-+THE+AGE+OF+EXPLORATION
Exploration through the Ages http://ageofex.marinersmuseum.org/
Famous Explorers http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/famous-explorers.htm
Oceanic Ventures and the Joining of the Continents http://worldhistoryforusall.sdsu.edu/units/six/landscape/Era06_landscape1.php
WH.4.5 Explain consequences of the conquests and colonization as a result of the worldwide voyages of exploration including the transatlantic slave trade, Columbian Exchange, and the effects on native populations in the Americas.
Suggested Topics/Key Terms:
Triangular Trade and the middle passage
Columbian Exchange and its effects on diet and disease transmission
Teaching Ideas:
Columbian Exchange and Thanksgiving- have students evaluate Thanksgiving recipes and determine what ingredients are Old World and what are New World. How “American” is a a traditional Thanksgiving meal?
Resources:
The Columbian Exchange and Its Consequences http://worldhistoryforusall.sdsu.edu/units/six/landscape/Era06_landscape2.php
The Commercial Revolution: Economic Impact of Exploration and Colonization on Europe https://education-portal.com/academy/lesson/the-commercial-revolution-economic-impact-of-exploration-and-colonization-on-europe.html#lesson
Early Global Commodities http://www.learner.org/courses/worldhistory/unit_main_15.html
The Global Economy Takes Shape http://worldhistoryforusall.sdsu.edu/units/six/landscape/Era06_landscape4.php
WH.4.7 Trace the development of the gunpowder empires such as the Ottoman, Mughal, and Ming empires and their reaction to Western interaction.
Suggested Topics/Key Terms:
Examine the leadership of of key leaders such as Shah Jahan, Suleiman, Akbar and Hongwu.
Role of Islam in building empires
Teaching Ideas:
Have students create a chart comparing the rise, achievements, use of religion in their empires, leadership, and fall of each empire.
Resources:
Rulers with Guns: the Rise of Powerful States http://worldhistoryforusall.sdsu.edu/units/six/landscape/Era06_landscape3.php
WH.4.8Trace the development and impact of absolute monarchies in Europe
Suggested Topics/Key Terms:
Divine Right as the basis of Absolutism
Louis XIV, Philip the II, Peter the Great as examples of absolute monarchs
Teaching Ideas:
Examine how well the above demonstrate the characteristics of an absolute monarch http://athena.stanwichschool.org/upperschool/Wood/Lists/European%20History%20Assigments/Attachments/37/10%20Characteristics%20and%20Absolutism%20Reading.pdf
Have students research an absolute monarch and complete a RAFT assignment taking the role of that absolute monarch. http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/printouts/raft-writing-template-30633.html
WH.4.9 Describe the progression of events in England that led to constitutional monarchy such as the Magna Carta, the English Civil War, and the Glorious Revolution of 1688.
Suggested Topics/Key Terms:
Signing of the Magna Carta establishing a constitutional monarchy and Parliament
Habeas Corpus
Progression from James I to William and Mary and the English Bill of Rights
Teaching Ideas:
Have students create a timeline with the various steps that lead England to a constitutional monarchy.
Resources:
Absolutism and Constitutionalism in Western Europe (1648-1715) http://education-portal.com/academy/topic/absolutism-and-constitutionalism-in-western-europe-1648-1715.html
England and the Glorious Revolution ftp://ftp.heritageacademies.com/ET/CurriculumCenter/NHAHistoryInteractive/GLO_REV/GlorRev.html
Standard 5 – Revolutions, Nationalism, and Imperial Power: c.1500 to c.1900
Students examine the causes, events, and global consequences of intellectual, economic, social, and political movements and revolutions—c .1500 to c.1900.
WH.5.1 Explain the key developments of the Scientific Revolution and its impact on the world.
Suggested Topics/Key Terms:
Geocentric/heliocentric models of the Universe
Copernicus
Kepler
Galileo and his trial
Isaac Newton
Rene Descartes
Francis Bacon
Teaching Ideas:
Assign each student a different person to investigate. Have them research key ideas and the effects of the person. Do a gallery walk or sharing activity where students teach each other about their particular person. Then end the lesson with coming up with generalizations about the Scientific Revolution.
The Scientific Revolution: Lesson Plans, http://hti.osu.edu/scientificrevolution/lesson_plans
WH.5.2 Explain the key ideas of the Enlightenment in European history and describe its impact upon political and religious thought and culture in Europe and the Americas including the foundation of American government.
Suggested Topics/Key Terms:
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Baron von Montesquieu
Jean Jacques Rosseau
Voltaire
Cesar Beccaria
Mary Wollstonecraft
Salons
Way the Enlightenment spread and its effects
Ideas of the Enlightenment reflected in the American government
Teaching Ideas:
After identifying the key ideas of the Enlightenment philosophes, examine the Declaration of Indepence and/or the US Constitution and identify key Enlightenment ideas.
Resources:
The American Revolution and Enlightenment, http://hti.osu.edu/history-lesson-plans/united-states-history/american-revolution-one
The Enlightenment, http://www.learner.org/courses/amerhistory/pdf/Enlightenment_LOne.pdf
The Growth of Democratic Tradition: The Enlightenment, http://humanities9ccb.wikispaces.com/file/view/Enlightenment%20Lesson%20Plans.pdf/279713564/Enlightenment%20Lesson%20Plans.pdf
Influence of the Enlightenment on the Beginning of America, http://www.tpsnva.org/teach/l_p/035/index.html
Leaders of the Enlightenment, 1650-1800, http://worldhistoryforusall.sdsu.edu/units/six/closeup/Era06_closeup661.php
Lesson 2: The Enlightenment Salon, http://modernworldhistory.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=8:lesson-2-the-enlightenment-salon&Itemid=5
Role-playing the Enlightenment, http://www.phschool.com/eteach/social_studies/2001_04/essay.html
WH.5.3 Examine the key causes, events, and consequences of the French Revolution as well as the rise and fall of Napoleon.
Suggested Topics/Key Terms:
Three Estates
National Assembly
Storming of the Bastille
Reign of Terror
Directory
How Napoleon came to power
Key accomplishments of Napoleon and their effects
Reasons for Napoleon’s Defeat
Teaching Ideas: (for WH.5.3)
Compare and contrast the American and French Revolution through looking at the national anthems, Star-Spangled Banner and Le Marseilles.
The French Revolution and Reign of Terror Lesson Plan, https://scholar.vt.edu/access/content/user/pedersjm/ePortfolio/french%20revolution%20lesson%20plan%20updated.pdf
Resources:
Betterlesson, LP16: French Revolution, http://betterlesson.com/lesson/12551/lp-16-french-revolution
Causes of Revolution, https://www.msu.edu/~forsbe21/.../forsberg.ppt
The French Revolution (History Channel viewing guide), http://www.history.com/images/media/interactives/frenchrevSG.pdf
The French Revolution, http://hti.osu.edu/history-lesson-plans/european-history/french-revolution
French Revolution and Napoleon, http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&ved=0CE4QFjAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fkmhs-bestorb.wikispaces.com%2Ffile%2Fview%2FFR_UptoNapoleon.docx&ei=ft8-U4CQBKHd2QX0noDgDw&usg=AFQjCNHZ-fsZAMyXNu2Ux82tOu23o-ZKVQ&sig2=m3fZPuPbp_52tacAbtkNQw&bvm=bv.64125504,d.b2I
Making the French Revolution Meaningful, https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/teaching-french-revolution
WH.5.4 Trace events, explain the causes, and analyze the outcomes for the Latin American independence movements of the nineteenth century.
Suggested Topics/Key Terms:
Influence of American and French Revolutions
Creoles
Toussaint L’Overture
Simon Bolivar
Teaching Ideas:
Have students research the different revolutions in Latin America. Then have them complete a body chart showing the key influences, ideas, people, and results.
Craft and Factory Production Lesson Plan, http://modernworldhistory.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=16:lesson-1-craft-and-factory-production&Itemid=9
Resources:
The Industrial Revolution, http://hti.osu.edu/history-lesson-plans/european-history/industrial-revolution
The Industrial Revolution as Macro-Change, http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=19&ved=0CG0QFjAIOAo&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.uwec.edu%2FCHTL%2Fprojects%2Fupload%2FIndustrializationlessonplan.doc&ei=dA8_U_2VDYbq2AW1xoCwAw&usg=AFQjCNE4o4b4G5JqN7h_vQeBENm2zpKwMg&sig2=XlcY6ImBnKN8NOekUWcgUQ&bvm=bv.64367178,d.b2I
The Industrial Revolution as a World Event, http://worldhistoryforusall.sdsu.edu/units/seven/landscape/07_landscape6.php
WH.5.7 Examine the economic, social, and political changes caused by the Industrial Revolution and their impact on the development of political and economic theory.
Suggested Topics/Key Terms:
Rise of consumer culture and advertising
Growth of the middle class
Capitalism
Utilitarianism
Socialism
Marxism
Workers’ Movements
Social Programs (Abolition, Education, Social Welfare)
Legislative Reform (Factory Act of 1833, extension of suffrage)
Teaching Ideas:
Students assume the role of children who worked in factories and role-play what that life must have been like.
Students draw their own town over the course of 150 years to see what effects industrialization has on it, http://www.thecaveonline.com/APEH/TheUrbanGame.htm
Students research and then draw cartoons representing the different political strategies which developed to solve the problems of industrialization.
Resources:
Child Labor in Factories, http://www2.needham.k12.ma.us/nhs/cur/Baker_00/2002_p7/ak_p7/childlabor.html
Colonialism in Africa DBQ Lesson Plan, http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CDoQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fschools.paulding.k12.ga.us%2Fischooldistrict%2Fmedia%2Ffiles%2F4079%2FColonialism%2520in%2520Africa%2520DBQ%2520Lesson%2520Plan.doc&ei=RxM_U4O_MK3C2gXct4GwAQ&usg=AFQjCNGLJ7zQarI_zsLVIRdTUJsHdLE3Rg&sig2=S8R8rH5Zc8R0vtyE0AbqaQ&bvm=bv.64367178,d.b2I
Students read through the poem “White Man’s Burden” by Rudyard Kipling and identify the key reasons for imperialism.
Scramble for Africa Simulation, http://shepherd.glk12.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=12015
Resources:(for WH.5.8)
The Age of Imperialism: A Unit Plan, http://www.coedu.usf.edu/main/departments/seced/webq/social%20studies/history/jberringer/
The Experience of Colonialism, http://worldhistoryforusall.sdsu.edu/units/seven/landscape/07_landscape5.php
Imperialism in India, http://filebox.vt.edu/users/ateller/portfolio/intasc6/india_lp.html
Imperialism Political Cartoon Assessment, http://modernworldhistory.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=22:lesson-3-imperialism-political-cartoon-assessment&Itemid=10
Resistance to Imperialism in Africa, Asia, and the Americas, http://worldhistoryforusall.sdsu.edu/units/seven/closeup/closeup751.php
WH.5.9 Compare and contrast the responses of China and Japan to challenges by Western imperial powers.