Native american diseases destroyed european populations. The student will categorize foods as originating in the old world or the new world. The adoption of efficient, carbohydraterich american crops such as corn, potatoes, and cassava allowed europeans and africans to overcome chronic food shortages. Lesson plan that describes how you can use these resource to teach about the columbian exchange. This simple worksheet reinforces a lesson on the columbian exchange.
The columbian exchange questions and answers discover the community of teachers, mentors and students just like you that can answer any question you might have on the columbian exchange. Then, click to open the columbian exchange map on the left and see an image about the columbian exchange. Students develop their literacy skills through a social studies focus on how the the columbian exchange impacted life on both sides of the atlantic. But the old world also ries of new supplies of metals are perhaps the best known. Discuss the positive and negative effects of the columbian exchange and fill in charts. Students may research or show what they have learned by writing the plants, animals, and diseases that were exchanged between the old world and the new world. The exchange of foods and animals had a dramatic impact on later societies. The student will analyze the impact of the age of discovery and expansion into the americas, africa, and asia. According to the map titled the slave trade, the british imported approximately how many slaves to their colonies. A major consequence of columbuss voyages was the eventual exchange of goods between the old world europe and the new world the americas. Uncovering the new world columbus created in which mann describes the effects, both intended and unintended, of the columbian exchange.
In this brainpop history movie, tim and moby map out the worldchanging effects of the columbian exchange. The columbian exchange refers to the exchange of diseases, ideas, food crops, and populations. Discovemispheregained from the columbian exchange in a number of ways. They go through their favorite recipe to determine whether or not they could have had it in the old world before 1492. Columbuss voyage connected the americas, europe, and africa in a web of exchange that transformed the environments of the old world and the new world. Discover the goods traded between the americas and europe including produce, plants, and animals thanks to.
May 17, 2017 columbuss voyage connected the americas, europe, and africa in a web of exchange that transformed the environments of the old world and the new world. To begin, print out the columbian exchange worksheet pdf. These maps contain nonexistent land marks such as the mountains of kong, these are here because cartographers made their maps based off incorrect information and then. Columbian exchange, the largest part of a more general process of biological globalization that followed the transoceanic voyaging of the 15th and 16th centuries, particularly in the wake of christopher columbuss voyages that began in 1492. The columbian exchange was the global diffusion of plants, food crops, animals, human populations, and disease pathogens that took place after the voyages of christopher columbus 1492 and other european mariners. Examine the maps and come to at least 2 conclusions with examples.
The columbian exchange of old and new world foods grades. This lapbook is a fun hands on activity for students to use in their interactive notebooks. Unit 3 change eagle mountainsaginaw independent school. Listed below are some of the goods that were shared in this columbian exchange between the continents. Columbian exchange interactive notebook activity the age of. In this interactive lesson supporting literacy skills, students watch video dramatizations that tell the story of the spanish explorers who arrived in the americas with columbus and introduced european, african, and asian plants and animals to the western hemisphere.
It had both positive and negative consequences for the global world. The old world received other plants and animals from the new world. The diseases europeans brought with them, which included smallpox and measles, led to the deaths of millions of native americans. Create a map that traces the origin and travels of one plant or crop, one animal, and one disease of the columbian exchange. The columbian exchange columbian exchange lesson unit.
Time required 2 class periods, plus additional time for research. Large world map not a pull down must be applied to wall with open space around it copy labels for the map. Students will create a map to identify key plant and animal items exchanged through the columbian exchange. During this process, they read informational text, learn and practice vocabulary words, and explore content through videos and interactive activities. This lesson uses excerpts from a book entitled 1493. Early exploration and the columbian exchange resources primary resource documents, artifacts, material needs, etc. Columbian exchange below west africa note the specific tribes and. Be fore the europeans arrived, native american farmland stretched all along the eastern seaboard of. The voyages of christopher columbus and other explorers introduced new animals, plants, and institutions to the new world. To understand the consequences of the columbian exchange, im going to investigate the impact of the movement of plants, animals, and people across the atlantic between 1492 and 1850. We have been learning about the columbus in class and now you will learn about the long lasting effect of his explorations in the americas. This is a fun collection of maps because you can see how the european view of africa has changed over time.
Hhemispheregained from the columbian exchange in a number of ways. Columbian exchange worksheets teachers pay teachers. As you work through the activity today, consider the following big questions. The columbian exchange ap us history study guide from the. Encounter and columbian exchange writing exercises. What would be the impact on todays society if the columbian exchange had not taken place and christopher columbus had not traveled between. The columbian exchange is the exchange of physical elements such as, plants, animals, diseases, and weapons. The columbian exchange columbian exchange and how it changed life on both sides of the atlantic ocean.
Label one column impact on americas, and the other columm impact on europe. In this lesson, you will learn about the columbian exchange and how it changed life on both sides of the atlantic ocean. The columbian exchange of old and new world foods grades 912 grade levels 9 12 estimated time. The columbian exchange of old and new world foods grades 68 grade levels 6 8 estimated time. Printable essay questions on the columbian exchange for world history scroll down to print pdf 1. A history of disease, food, and ideas nnathan nunn is an assistant professor of economics, harvard university, cambridge, athan nunn is an assistant professor of economics, harvard university, cambridge. It is likely true that without the socalled columbian exchange the population of native americans would have remained more stable. A vast exchange of goods and ideas between europe, asia, africa, and the americas between 15001600. Plant and animal exchange surprises i was surprised by the things that were introduced to the americas by european travelers. The time period following the voyages of christopher columbus, in which this great exchange began to unfold is referred to as the columbian exchange. Excerpt from the journal of christopher columbus king ferdinands letter to the tainos the treaty with massasoit the columbian exchange columbian exchange map. The old world received other plants and animals from the. Causeandeffect activity 1 columbian exchange chart 1 causes native american civilizations disrupted goods of the chart 2 goods of the columbian exchange brought to the americas by europeans brought to europe from the americas rice, wheat, oats, barley, soybeans, watermelon, potatoes, corn, squash, chocolate, wild rice. Spanish in north america essay questions student handouts.
Use it to help you keep track of the plants and animals that were part of the columbian exchange. List three goods that were traded from each hemisphere a total of six goods should be listed. The columbian exchange lesson plan america in class. Columbian exchange agricultural supplemental triangular trade immunity impact of columbian exchange ppt impact of columbian exchange graphic organizer columbian exchange map activity students glue products to a map depending on where the products originated. The explanation for all that is included in the columbian exchange is illustrated and amplified by the slides and the many links leading to online animations, maps, and resources. You will be going on a quest to find out all you can about the columbian exchange. Students are given clues about 10 major events that happened during the columbian exchange regarding important items that were given and received during this event. The columbian exchange became even more unbalanced with europes successful appropriation of new world staple crops originally developed by indians. Explain the course and consequences of the columbian exchange. New content is added regularly to the website, including online exhibitions, videos, lesson plans, and issues of the online journal history now, which features essays by leading scholars on major topics in american history. The columbian exchange is a term used to describe the massive exchange of agricultural goods, ideas, slave labor, and diseases between the eastern and western hemispheres which occurred after the year 1492. Use the attached files to complete your columbian exchange map. The first country to launch largescale voyages of exploration was spain. Be fore the europeans arrived, native american farmland stretched all along the eastern seaboard of what is now the united states.
Using the map, explain two negative exchanges that took place during the age of exploration. Students develop their literacy skills through a social studies focus on how the the columbian exchange impacted life on both. Disease was just as much a part of the columbian exchange as goods and food. In this worksheet, a blank map of the old world and new world is provided 1492mid 1600s. Assess the origin, movement and destination of commodities in the triangular trade and the impact of the columbian exchange. Answer questions about the impact of the columbian exchange on europe and the americas. The columbian exchange and triangular trade 14921750 c. The age of exploration was driven in large part by the search for wealth. Discoveeries of new supplies of metals are perhaps the best known.
Hemispheregained from the columbian exchange in a number of ways. Answer each of the following questions using complete sentences. A study of origin and cultural diffusion through food overview. Its called columbian because it started with columbus, and exchange because people traded, or exchanged, things with each other. The columbian exchange of old and new world foods grades 912. The columbian exchange started to connect the new and old worlds with the transmission of ideas, plants, animals, and diseases. Two worlds that had grown apart with very different organisms started to become homogeneous crosby, 1972. The columbian exchange and global trade recognizing.
Egypt nile, mesopotamiasumer euphratestigris, shang china. Have students create a two columm chart in their notebooks. How did standards of living in africa, the americas, and europe change as a result of the columbian exchange. Columbian exchange lesson and writing activity 26 pages this includes a teacher copy, so there are repeat pages. My goal is to see what effect the new global networks had on the different peoples and regions of the earth. Columbian exchange would dramatically and permanently affect human societies and the natural environment on both sides of the ocean. Try to draw your own diagram of the columbian exchange on a world map. Biological and cultural consequences of 1492, 30th anniversary edition, by alfred w. Columbian exchange activity do the maps first then answer the questions sswh10.
It profoundly shaped world history in the ensuing centuries. The columbian exchange, also known as the columbian interchange, named after christopher columbus, was the widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, diseases, and ideas between the americas, west africa, and the old world in the 15th and 16th centuries. Columbian exchange dbq paulding county school district. Back and forth across the atlantic in the columbian exchange. It also relates to european colonization and trade following christopher columbuss 1492 voyage. What trading networks existed in the indian ocean prior to portuguese arrival, and how did the portuguese. Mann wrote 1493 to explore the columbian exchange as a process which is still going on today. The columbian exchange of old and new world foods grades 68. Create a map using a blank piece of paper provided you will be creating a map of the colombian exchange. Columbian exchange interactive notebook activity the age. Columbian exchange columbian exchange worksheet the columbian exchange is the transfer of animals, plants, technology, and disease between the old world europe, africa, and asia and the new world the newly discovered america continents. This is the perfect power point presentation to teach the columbian exchange. Identify the two hemispheres that were involved in the columbian exchange. Students do not need to know specific products and where they originated.
As we specified in the past, the technology assists us to always recognize that life will certainly be consistently less complicated. While i would submit that changes in the climate had already lead to food scarcity and increased conflict, i admit that would not have been nearly as devastating as the various pathogens brought by the europeans. This lesson is designed as an introductory lesson that explores cultural origin and diffusion through the lens of food, and applies those ideas to the columbian exchange. Students will use maps, venn diagrams, and complete a document based question dbq to. Common core lesson plan wake county public school system.
Use this chart to help you paste the squares onto your map in the correct places. New world had not exchanged plants, animals, diseases, ideas, or technologies. Why are there different interpretations of the encounter between africans, europeans, and native americans. The columbian exchange lesson plan by julia brittain arth essential questions in what ways did the eastern hemisphere and the western hemisphere of our world differ prior. The map and chart show what items moved back and forth across the atlantic in the columbian exchange. This lesson draws from the introduction in manns book.
Now you will read more about how that exchange began to turn the world into todays connected global village. The columbian exchange is a term used to describe the massive exchange of agricultural goods, ideas, slave labor, and diseases between the eastern and western. Students will explore new world and old world food origins to understand how the columbian exchange altered peoples lives worldwide. Goods introduced to the new world goods introduced to the old world. Some aspects of the columbian exchange had a tragic impact on many native americans. Using information from the document complete the chart by identifying two goods that were exchanged between the continents. Trade brings diseaseone result of the columbian exchange was the transfer of germs from europe to the americas. The columbian exchange has been one of the most significant events in the history of world ecology, agriculture, and culture. Students look at a map and categorize new and old world goods.
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