Lesson Overview
The student will explore and compare how individual elements influence the whole to create a new environment, specifically making the connections between bird migration and the development of the rice plantations and the transatlantic slave trade.
Essential Question
“How do individual elements influence the whole to create a new environment?”
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7, 8
Computer with internet access
- Colored copies of Vol. I, plate 14
- Analyzing prints handout
- Power Point “Gallery Walk”
- Images printed off for the gallery walk
- Quilt template
- Markers/colored pencils/scissors
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- 7-1 The student will demonstrate an understanding of the growth and impact of global trade on world civilizations after 1600.
- European expansion during the 1600s and 1700s was often driven by economic and technological forces. To understand the influence of these forces, the student will utilize the knowledge and skills set forth in the following indicators:
- 7-1.3 Summarize the policy of mercantilism as a way of building a nation’s wealth, including government policies to control trade.
- 7-1.4 Analyze the beginnings of capitalism and the ways that it was affected by mercantilism, the developing market economy, international trade, and the rise of the middle class.
- European expansion during the 1600s and 1700s was often driven by economic and technological forces. To understand the influence of these forces, the student will utilize the knowledge and skills set forth in the following indicators:
- 8-1 The student will demonstrate an understanding of the settlement of South Carolina and the United States by Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans.
- The human mosaic of the South Carolina colony was composed of indigenous, immigrant, and enslaved populations. To understand how these differing backgrounds melded into an entirely new and different culture, the student will utilize the knowledge and ...
- 8-1.4 Explain the significance of enslaved and free Africans in the developing culture and economy of the South and South Carolina, including the growth of the slave trade and resulting population imbalance between African and European settlers; Africa...
- 8-1.5 Explain how South Carolinians used their natural, human, and political resources uniquely to gain economic prosperity, including settlement by and trade with the people of Barbados, rice and indigo planting, and the practice of mercantilism.
- The human mosaic of the South Carolina colony was composed of indigenous, immigrant, and enslaved populations. To understand how these differing backgrounds melded into an entirely new and different culture, the student will utilize the knowledge and ...
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Log In to View LessonLesson Created By: Gerilyn Leland and Liz Goodloe, Edited by Lisa Ray and Lewis Huffman
Lesson Partners: Charleston County School District, Catesby Commemorative Trust, College of Charleston