Learning Goals
Students will be able to formulate compelling and supporting questions about what it takes to build a society and use evidence from primary and secondary sources, maps, and models to develop claims about colonial settlement.
Students will be able to describe the traditions diverse cultural groups brought to the colonies and analyze how religion, geography, and economic factors influenced where people settled and how goods, ideas, and people moved.
Students will be able to analyze the social and economic impact of the slave trade on diverse groups and explain how conflict and collaboration shaped colonial life.
Products
Colonial Investigation Notebook
Students compile a research notebook that records their question, source notes, map observations, evidence sorting, and a personal claim about a colonial settlement choice. The notebook shows how the student used evidence to answer the compelling question and explains any limitations in what the sources revealed.
Build-a-Colony Exhibit Board and Evidence Talk
Teams create a formal investigation display with a settlement map, visual evidence, shared claim, and a short presentation defending their region choice. The product must synthesize each member’s evidence and address agreement, disagreement, and unanswered questions in the sources.
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