Colonial America
History Alive textbook
Geography Objectives – The student will be able to: a.Use a variety of geographic tools to describe the geographic characteristics of early settlements in Colonial America. b.Compare the natural/physical and human characteristics of the New England, Middle, and Southern colonies and explain how those characteristics affected where and how people lived and worked. c.Analyze the consequences of migration from colony to colony and immigration to the colonies such as the Europeans and Africans to the east coast North America.
History Objectives – The student will be able to: a.Describe key historical events within the early settlement of Colonial America. b.Describe the religious, political, and economic motives of individuals who migrated to North America and the difficulties they encountered. c.Compare the political, economic, and social lives of people in the New England, Mid-Atlantic, and Southern colonies. d.Describe the establishment of slavery and how it shaped life in Colonial America.
Political Science Objective – The student will be able to: a.Explain early examples of self-government such as the Mayflower Compact and the House of Burgesses. b.Compare the various foundations, functions, and purposes of governments in the Colonial America regions including early democratic ideas and practices that emerged such as representative assemblies and town meetings. c.Describe ways that colonial government shaped public policy in response to regional issues.
Peoples of the Nations and World Objectives – The student will be able to: a.Describe interactions between early settlers and Native Americans including examples of compromise or conflict. b.Describe how increasing diversity in the colonies resulted from immigration, settlement patterns, and economic development. c.Describe the contributions of significant individuals and groups to the development of Colonial America.
Social Studies Skills and Processes Objectives – The student will be able to: a.Read to learn and construct meaning about social studies by using appropriate vocabulary and comprehension strategies. b.Write to learn and communicate social studies understandings through informal writing, formal writing, and timed, on-demand writing. c.Identify, interpret, and synthesize information from primary and secondary sources to analyze a social studies question/topic/situation/problem being studied. d.Analyze social studies information from a variety of sources by interpreting, evaluating and synthesizing information and by recognizing relationships in and among ideas or events such as cause and effect, sequence, main idea, and details. e.Present information in creative ways, such as simulations, debates, mock trials, and skits. f.Organize and display social studies information from print and non-print sources using charts, graphs, graphic organizers, maps, timelines and other visual representations.
Economics Objectives – The student will be able to: a.Explain the consequences of specialized work on interdependence, trade, and economic growth before 1790. b.Explain the importance of shipping and trading to the economic development of the colonies, such as triangular trade. c.Explain how technological changes affected the production of goods and services over time in Colonial America.
Geography Objectives – The student will be able to: a.Use a variety of geographic tools to describe the geographic characteristics of early settlements in Colonial America. b.Compare the natural/physical and human characteristics of the New England, Middle, and Southern colonies and explain how those characteristics affected where and how people lived and worked. c.Analyze the consequences of migration from colony to colony and immigration to the colonies such as the Europeans and Africans to the east coast North America.
History Objectives – The student will be able to: a.Describe key historical events within the early settlement of Colonial America. b.Describe the religious, political, and economic motives of individuals who migrated to North America and the difficulties they encountered. c.Compare the political, economic, and social lives of people in the New England, Mid-Atlantic, and Southern colonies. d.Describe the establishment of slavery and how it shaped life in Colonial America.
Political Science Objective – The student will be able to: a.Explain early examples of self-government such as the Mayflower Compact and the House of Burgesses. b.Compare the various foundations, functions, and purposes of governments in the Colonial America regions including early democratic ideas and practices that emerged such as representative assemblies and town meetings. c.Describe ways that colonial government shaped public policy in response to regional issues.
Peoples of the Nations and World Objectives – The student will be able to: a.Describe interactions between early settlers and Native Americans including examples of compromise or conflict. b.Describe how increasing diversity in the colonies resulted from immigration, settlement patterns, and economic development. c.Describe the contributions of significant individuals and groups to the development of Colonial America.
Social Studies Skills and Processes Objectives – The student will be able to: a.Read to learn and construct meaning about social studies by using appropriate vocabulary and comprehension strategies. b.Write to learn and communicate social studies understandings through informal writing, formal writing, and timed, on-demand writing. c.Identify, interpret, and synthesize information from primary and secondary sources to analyze a social studies question/topic/situation/problem being studied. d.Analyze social studies information from a variety of sources by interpreting, evaluating and synthesizing information and by recognizing relationships in and among ideas or events such as cause and effect, sequence, main idea, and details. e.Present information in creative ways, such as simulations, debates, mock trials, and skits. f.Organize and display social studies information from print and non-print sources using charts, graphs, graphic organizers, maps, timelines and other visual representations.
Economics Objectives – The student will be able to: a.Explain the consequences of specialized work on interdependence, trade, and economic growth before 1790. b.Explain the importance of shipping and trading to the economic development of the colonies, such as triangular trade. c.Explain how technological changes affected the production of goods and services over time in Colonial America.