1. European Exploration in North America
4th Grade

2. Georgia Performance Standard
SS4H2 The student will describe European exploration in North America.
Describe the reasons for, obstacles to, and accomplishments of the Spanish, French, and English explorations of John Cabot, Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Juan Ponce de León, Christopher Columbus, Henry Hudson, and Jacques Cartier.
Describe examples of cooperation and conflict between Europeans and Native Americans.
SS4G2 The student will describe how physical systems affect human systems
Describe how the early explorers (SS4H2a) adapted, or failed to adapt, to the various physical environments in which they traveled.

3. Columbus
Cartier
Ponce de Leon
Cabot
Hudson
Balboa

4. YouTube: Social Studies Rocks- Explorers

5. Columbus returning to Spain.
Christopher Columbus arriving to the New World.
Columbus returning to Spain.

6. Cooperation Goods and ideas were exchanged.
Trade
Crops
Navigational tools were improved.
New areas were mapped.
Technologies
Weapons
Farm tools
Transportation
Friendships were formed.

7. Conflict Lack of supplies Different climates Lack of Food Diseases
The fear of the unknown
Claims to land
Competition for trade
Differences in culture
Differences in language

8. Your Turn! Welcome to the New World

10. The Cultural Approach Vasco Nunez de Balbo Jacques Cartier John Cabot
Christopher Columbus
Henry Hudson
Juan Ponce de Leon

11. Resources
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1492: An Ongoing Voyage Europe Claims America: The Atlantic Joined. (n.d.). Retrieved June 26, 2015, from
Columbus at the court of Barcelona. (n.d.). Retrieved June 25, 2015, from
Columbus taking possession of the new country. (n.d.). Retrieved June 25, 2015, from
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Georgia Performance Standards (GPS). (n.d.). Retrieved June 26, 2015, from
Jacques Cartier dresse une croix, Québec, (1916). Retrieved June 26, 2015, from
John Cabot. (n.d.). Retrieved June 25, 2015, from Cabot.htm
Juan Ponce de León. (n.d.). Retrieved June 26, 2015, from
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Social Studies Rocks: Explorer. (2011). Retrieved from
The Hudson River. (n.d.). Retrieved June 25, 2015, from netherland/hudson-river/
[The] last voyage of Henry Hudson. (1881). Retrieved from
Unit 4 Maps. (n.d.). Retrieved June 25, 2015, from
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