Lesson
Ship Technology in the Age of Discovery
This Lesson can be taught any time during the chapter but would be best connected to the Narratives on exploration and settlement, particularly Henry Hudson and Exploration, Hernando de Soto, and Columbian Exchange.
Objectives:
- Students will identify advancements in ship design that allowed for improvements in overseas travel and trade.
- Students will analyze how each of these advancements affected the development of the European colonies in North America.
Materials
Lesson Components
ActivityKey Terms of the Age of Discovery and Sail
Definitions for key terms to help students study this time period.
Lesson plan
55 minClick a phase to open it
More Information
Organize your students into groups of five to eight. Ensure that they have ample space to spread out images and terms. Print out the images from Handout A: Ships and Navigational Tools and provide one set to each group of students. Ensure students have scratch paper to write out their responses on.
Standards
Advanced Placement
- Topic 1.4 · Columbian Exchange, Spanish Exploration, and Conquest
- Theme · Geography and the Environment
- Learning Objective · Unit 1D
- Historical Development · 1.2.I.C
- Reasoning Skill · Developments and Processes
- Reasoning Skill · Making Connections
- Reasoning Skill · Argumentation
- Reasoning Process · Causation
- Reasoning Process · Continuity and Change
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