{"id":2434,"date":"2022-12-11T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-11T21:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hillbrook.us\/voices\/?p=2434"},"modified":"2023-11-01T10:30:16","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T17:30:16","slug":"ingress-and-impact-new-world-explorers-in-5th-grade-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hillbrook.us\/voices\/2022\/12\/ingress-and-impact-new-world-explorers-in-5th-grade-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Ingress and Impact: New World Explorers In 5th Grade History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>5th Grade historians are using a variety of resources and analytical techniques to study some of the early Europeans who set out to explore the New World starting in the late 1400s, often leaving major impacts on people and places they landed that are felt to this day. Students began by independently reading their textbook (TCI\u2019s<em> History Alive!<\/em>) chapter to understand a bit about the motivations of European monarchs and the sailors themselves\u2014from Cabot to Cartier to Columbus, and more\u2014, when and how they traveled, and some of what happened in their journeys.<em> <\/em>On Friday last week, students were deep in this unit, unpacking layers of their central text with new information and peer discussion. After their initial readings and some note-taking, students had each developed and pursued an independent question about one of the explorers. I saw wonderings like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&nbsp;\u201cWhy did Columbus kill innocent native people?\u201d&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cWhy did the Aztec Emperors give Cortes gifts and gold?\u201d&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cWhat happened when Columbus neared the Bermuda Triangle?\u201d&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cDid Cartier like the natives he met?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cIf Cabot was a \u2018trader\u2019, what did he trade or sell?\u201d<\/em> and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students\u2019 new findings about the explorers supported them to further analyze the impact. They summarized each explorer\u2019s biography. They used maps, scales, and rulers to answer comprehension questions about the varying journeys. They traded information they had discovered in their independent research and then turned their attention on Friday to this prompt: Plot each explorer on this spectrum (from \u201cmost impact\u201d to \u201cleast impact\u201d on history) and write two sentences for each individual to explain why you placed them the way you did. As students began their plotting, they discussed with tablemates ideas like, does causing the most destruction count as most impact compared to something like introducing Christianity to a new population? How different must these sailor\u2019s lives and values have been from my own to undertake these missions? What must it have been like? 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