Exploration, Colonization, Empire, & Enlightenment
This 8-week semester course teaches the major themes of economics, technology, government, and change over time. Age of Exploration, Colonization, Mercantilism, Age of Enlightenment, European and Russian Empires in the 1700s.
Kim Guthriegabs M. Ed
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Homework
1 hour per week. Primary source questions and analysis using documents and images from teacher created Google Docs or Google Slides posted in the classroom. Optional weekly quizzes using Booklet or Kahoot! Learners are asked to prepare a project presentation on one nation or group of people and how they were changed during this period of history. Learners are provided with sources of trade books and articles to read that will enhance their understanding of the weekly lesson. A weekly summary of reflection is helpful to show an understanding of the content. This can be completed and sent in for review or just kept for the learner as a review.Assessment
Informal assessment Learner scores on review quizzes Completed homeworkGrading
Grades are offered at the learner request. Grades can be offered based on participation, quiz results, assignment results, or a combination of the assignments.Class Experience
US Grade 7 - 10
What was the result of European exploration in history?
Many people have heard of the story of the 13 British colonies in North America, but what happened to the Native nations and land in the rest of the Americas?
Have you wondered what was happening to the people in Asia, Europe, and Russia through these years?
How did technology play a role over these 200 years of history?
What were the positive and negative impacts on people and places through this time?
Week 1: 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑨𝒈𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑬𝒙𝒑𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏
Week 2: 𝑪𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒛𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑬𝒎𝒑𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒔
Week 3: 𝑬𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑬𝒙𝒑𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑪𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒛𝒆𝒔 𝑵𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒉 𝑨𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒂
Week 4: 𝑬𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝑴𝒆𝒆𝒕𝒔 𝑾𝒆𝒔𝒕
Week 5: 𝑺𝒄𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝑹𝒆𝒗𝒐𝒍𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏
Week 6: 𝑨𝒈𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑬𝒏𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕
Week 7: 𝑹𝒖𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑬𝒎𝒑𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝟭𝟴𝒕𝒉 𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒚
Week 8: Summary and quiz review. Includes any extended content requests.
Learners present their chosen project.
I teach using a combination of slides, lectures, note-taking using graphic organizers, timelines maps, video clips, and projects.
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I encourage reflection and personal connections with the history that we learn in class.
Maps and primary sources are used throughout these lessons to illustrate the geography of the areas/nations we discuss.
Students will be able to create a timeline of the Age of Exploration and Colonization.
Each week's lesson is a recorded video or videos that will be posted directly on the Classroom page.
Additional Google Docs and YouTube videos will be posted directly onto the classroom page.
Graphic organizers are posted each week that can be used for note-taking while watching the lesson videos.
Includes weekly review games using Blooklet or Kahoot!Learning Goals
Trace the origins of exploration and trade during this time period.
Describe the motives of European nations to explore new lands. Describe the impact that exploration had on Indigenous people in the Americas.
Explore the motives for an isolationist policy in Asia.
Examine European motives for trade in Africa.
Explain the Triangular Trade Routes
Explain how empires grow and change
Compare and contrast exploration in the Americas and Africa with exploration in Asia
Other Details
Parental Guidance
Weapons were the main technology that allowed Europeans to overpower other nations and peoples. I will not show graphic images during the classes or on any handouts. The historical fact that Europeans killed many people in Africa, Asia, and the Americas as they explored will be discussed. The spreading of Christianity is a key motivating factor for exploration. Learners are provided the fact that this became a source of conflict in some non-Christian nations. No religious group is portrayed as good or bad. Discussion is focused on the impacts based on historical documents.
European exploration had a worldwide impact, because this class covers 200 hundred years of history it is impossible to discuss all of the individual Native Nation people that were impacted by exploration. I will focus on the Aztecs, Huron, Powhatan, and Wampanoag Native Nations in the Americas. I will focus on the Western Gold Coast of Africa, as slavery was a key source of economics during this time period, and is necessary to discuss its negative impact for a thorough understanding of the impacts on people and societies. We will also discuss the impact on people in the nations of China, India, Japan, and the Spice Islands in Asia.
Class is taught using a recorded video that will be posted directly on the classroom page. Google Docs and YouTube videos will also be posted directly onto the classroom page. Learners may want to submit responses in the classroom using Google Docs, but this is not required.
I supply direct links for learners to use the Kahoot! and Blooket review games as a way to review between lessons. These games do not require learners to enter any personal information. The links are provided via the classroom page each week. They are only sent to the enrolled learners in the current section and expire after the section ends.
Supply List
Learners will benefit from having a modern World History textbook that they can refer to for longer reading passages and references outside of the classroom. A very economical choice is the book, Everything You Need to Ace World History in One Big Fat Notebook: The Complete Middle School Study Guide A list of optional picture books and novels that learners may choose to read as an enhancement to the course will be provided upon enrollment.
1 file available upon enrollment
External Resources
In addition to the Outschool classroom, this class uses:
Sources
National Archives.gov
National Archives.gov.uk
LiverpoolMuseums.org.uk
Library of Congress.gov
americanhistory.si.edu
The British Museum
The Mariners Museum
National Museum of African American History and Culture
National Museum of the American Indian
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Teacher expertise and credentials
South Carolina Teaching Certificate in Elementary Education
2 Degrees
Master's Degree in Education from Southern Wesleyan
Bachelor's Degree in Education from Limestone University
I am a highly-qualified and licensed teacher of history. I taught history in the classroom for over 15 years. As a classroom teacher, I was the head history teacher and wrote the history curriculum for the school district.
I have completed several graduate classes with the Library of Congress and the US National Archives.Reviews
Live Group Class
$10
weekly8 weeks
Completed by 1 learner
No live video meetings
Ages: 12-17
