Unit 4: Transoceanic Connections
c. 1450 - 1750
12-15% of AP Exam
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Unit 4 Planning Resources (Donate for Access)
Unit 4 Presentations (Donate for Access)
- Maritime Empires - Causes & Events (Topics 4.1, 4.2)
- Columbian Exchange (Topic 4.3)
- The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade (Topic 4.4)
- Coercive Labor Systems (Topic 4.4)
- Establishing Maritime Empires (Topic 4.4)
- Maintaining and Developing Maritime Empires (Topic 4.5)
Unit 4 Handouts & Activities (Donate for Access)
Maritime Exploration - Technology, Causes, and Outcomes Inquiry Lesson (Donate for Access)
This inquiry lesson covers Topic 4.1 and 4.2
- Assign for homework as part of a flipped class model - after completing for homework, students come to class ready to discuss and share their responses
- Make each document a “station” in your room that students have to visit in order to answer the questions
- Put students in groups and make each document a “jigsaw” part that is rotated around the room. Students can work together and discuss findings. Split the activity into two parts for shorter class periods.
- Use the tech portion for the first class and the causes/effects portion for the second part.
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Inquiry Lesson (Donate for Access)
This inquiry lesson covers Topic 4.4
Resistance Movements Activity (Donate for Access)
This activity covers Topic 4.6
I use this as a jigsaw activity where I assign students a different resistance movement and roll a dice to see which person has to present theirs in front of the class.
I use this as a jigsaw activity where I assign students a different resistance movement and roll a dice to see which person has to present theirs in front of the class.
Columbian Exchange Project (Donate for Access)
This project covers Topic 4.3
Casta Paintings WebQuest (Donate for Access)
This activity covers Topics 4.7
Teaching the DBQ Packet (Donate for Access)
Unit 4 Handout Keys
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Unit 4 Vocabulary
Unit 4 Crash Course Videos
Unit 4 Helpful Links
- Freemanpedia: Unit 4
- Heimler's History: Technological Innovations (Topic 4.1)
- Heimler's History: Exploration Causes & Events (Topic 4.2)
- Heimler's History: Columbian Exchange (Topic 4.3)
- Heimler's History: Maritime Empires Established (Topic 4.4)
- Heimler's History: Maritime Empires Developed and Maintained (Topic 4.5)
- Heimler's History: Challenges to State Power (Topic 4.6)
- Heimler's History: Changing Social Hierarchies (Topic 4.7)
- French and Dutch Exploration of the New World (Khan Academy)
- Agri-History of Cotton in India
- Khan Academy: Spanish and Portuguese Empires Video
- Khan Academy: Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment Video