Global Exchanges
Below are links to various materials we've created to support students' work on the unit theme: The Impact of Cultural Exchange.
- Unit Bibliography: This is a list of supplementary materials to help you to meet the needs of individual students in your classroom.
- Classroom Activities: To extend instruction, here are some creative activities you can print and use in your classroom.
- Changes and the Individual (Language Arts/Science/Social Studies)
- Leaders of Change (Language Arts/Social Studies)
- Theme Project Organizer: This is a worksheet you can print and distribute to students to help them track their work on the Theme Project.
- Theme Project Links: Here are Internet resources for students to use while working on the Theme Project.
Here are links to Internet resources that can be used to support instruction of the “Think Like a Geographer” feature for this unit: What Did Captain Cook Learn About the Earth?
- Captain Cook: Voyages of Discovery
- From the Hunterian Museum at the University of Glasgow comes this wonderful site on the voyages and explorations of Captain James Cook. The site includes interactive maps of Cook's voyages, brief descriptions of each place he visited, and images of artifacts collected by his expedition.
- http://www.hunterian.gla.ac.uk/collections/museum/cook/cook.shtml
- James Cook
- The Mariner's Museum presents this illustrated biography of Captain Cook. Essays describe his three voyages, and a map shows their routes in color.
- http://www.mariner.org/educationalad/ageofex/cook.php
Here are links to Internet resources that can be used to support instruction of the “Citizenship” feature for this unit: Can Rulers Do Whatever They Want?
- The English Bill of Rights
- This site contains the text of the English Bill of Rights, the 1689 document written by Parliament that limited the power of the English monarchy.
- http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm
- The U.S. Bill of Rights
- Part of the Archiving Early America project, this site features the Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution. The includes an explanatory passage and the complete text of the document.
- http://earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/freedom/bill/index.html