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Ms. Information Games - Jamestown

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Title:

Ms. Information Games - Jamestown

URL:

https://mrnussbaum.com/ms-information-games-jamestown

Content Source:

Other
Mr. Nussbaum

Type:

Interactive/Game

Overview:

In this online interactive game, Ms. Information is traveling the country trying to re-write history with her false information! Can you stop her? She has traveled to the Jamestown Village in Virginia to change the story of the colony's early history. Use your knowledge of Jamestown to foil her plan once and for all!

Content Standard(s):

Social Studies
SS2010 (2010)
Grade: 5
United States Studies: Beginnings to the Industrial Revolution

4 ) Determine the economic and cultural impact of European exploration during the Age of Discovery upon European society and American Indians.

• Identifying significant early European patrons, explorers, and their countries of origin, including early settlements in the New World

Examples: patrons—King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella

explorers—Christopher Columbus

early settlements—St. Augustine, Quebec, Jamestown

• Tracing the development and impact of the Columbian Exchange

Unpacked Content

Strand: Economics, Geography, History, Civics and Government

Course Title: United States Studies: Beginnings to the Industrial Revolution

Evidence Of Student Attainment:

Students:

Identify the economic and cultural impact of European exploration during the Age of Discovery upon European society and American Indians.
Identify significant early European patrons and explorers, as well as the early settlements in the New World.
Trace the development and impact of the Columbian Exchange.

Teacher Vocabulary:

economic impact
cultural impact
Age of Discovery
patrons (King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella)
explorers (Christopher Columbus, Ponce de Leon, Hernando de Soto)
early settlements (St. Augustine, Quebec, Jamestown)
Columbian Exchange

Knowledge:

Students know:

The economic and cultural impacts on European society and American Indians by European exploration during the Age of Discovery.
The significant early patrons and explorers.
The development and impact of the Columbian Exchange.

Skills:

Students are able to:

Identify the geography of North America.
Discuss the discoveries of Columbus and the exploration and conquests of Pizarro and Cortes.
Explain the economic and cultural impact of European exploration during the Age of Discovery upon European society and American Indians.
Identify significant early European patrons, explorers, and their country of origin.
Locate significant early European settlements in the New World.
Map the Columbian exchange.
Explain how science, technology, and economic factors have developed, changed and affected societies throughout history.
Explain how religious and philosophical ideas have been powerful forces throughout history.

Understanding:

Students understand that:

European exploration connected the old world to the new world creating both positive and negative changes across the globe.

Alabama Archives Resources:

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Alabama Archive Records

Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards

AAS Standard:
SS.AAS.5.4- Locate North America and Europe on a world map to illustrate journey; identify primary early European explorers, including Columbus, De Soto, and Magellan; recognize that European explorers sailed to America for economic, religious, and personal gain.

Tags:

colony, Jamestown

License Type:

Custom Permission Type
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Author:

Ginger Boyd

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Ms. Information Games - Jamestown