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Lesson Plan 1: High School



This lesson will fulfill the following NCHS National History Standards:

Era 1: Three Worlds Meet
Standard 1: Comparative characteristics of societies in the Americas, Western Europe, and Western Africa that increasingly interacted after 1450
Standard 2 : How early European exploration and colonization resulted in cultural and ecological interactions among previously unconnected peoples


Lesson Plan 2: High School



This lesson will fulfill the following NCHS National History Standards:

Era 2: Colonization and Settlement (1585-1763)
Standard 1B: The student understands the European struggle for control of North America.


Lesson Plan 3: Middle School



This lesson will fulfill the following NCHS National History Standards:

Era 1: Three Worlds Meet (Beginnings to 1620)
Standard 2B:
Describe the social composition of the early settlers and compare their various motives for exploration and colonization.


Lesson Plan 4: Elementary School



This lesson will fulfill the following NCHS National Standards for History:

Era 1: Three Worlds Meet (beginnings to 1620)
Standard 1D: The student understands the differences and similarities among Africans, Europeans, and Native Americans who converged in the western hemisphere after 1492.




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