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=Stage 1 - Identify Desired Results= Maine Learning Results. E. History || Grades 6-8: Americas to 1600: European exploration and settlement Students understand major eras, major enduring themes, and historic influences in the history of Maine, the United States, and various regions of the world. ||
 * **Establish Goals (MLR):** **(G)**
 * E1: Historical Knowledge, concepts, themes & patterns

//What understandings are desired?//
•Only some of the European countries were involved in exploration and/or settlement of the Americas •the impact of exploration and settlement was significant for both Europeans AND Native Americans. ||
 * **//Students will understand that://** **(U)** ||
 * • Europeans were inspired to explore and settle the Americas due, in part, to late Medieval encounters and ideas of the early Renaissance.

//What essential questions will be considered?//
• Why were there only certain European countries exploring and settling the Americas after the late 1400s? • How did exploration and settlement affect the Natives? The Europeans? ||
 * **Essential Questions:** **(Q)** ||
 * • How did Medieval encounters and Renaissance ideas lead to the exploration and settlement of the Americas?

//What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?//
• **Sequence and Timelines**: Who came first for explorers? Who settled where and when? When did important voyages and other events take place? • **Definitions:** Quadrant, compass, astrolabe, cartography, printing press, celestial navigation, lateen sails, square sails, caravel, dead reckoning navigation, latitude, longitude, motivation, comparing and contrasting, cause and effect. || • synthesize what they've learned about the Age of Exploration and create a story put to podcast about their assigned explorer. •document their knowledge of the ideas and innovations that led to the Age of Discovery. 1& 2 • use what they know about the explorers/countries to identify cause and effect upon their arrival in the new world 2 & 3 • compare and contrast the motivations of each European explorer/ruler who conducted voyages of exploration 2 • imagine and understand the feelings and reactions of the Natives. 3 • recognize the reasons each of the prominent European countries conducted voyages of discovery. 1,2, & 3 ||
 * **//Students will know://** **(K)** || **//Students will be able to://** **(S)** ||
 * • **Important events and people**: Important explorers: Columbus, Cabot, Magellan, Cortes, Cartier, De Gama. Important Rulers during the Age of Discovery: Isabella & Ferdinand, John I, Manuel I, Henry VII.


 * 2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe.**