English Language Arts standards addressed throughout unit:
[ELA 4.1b-h; 4.2a-d; 4.4e; 4.5 c,d,f,h,j; 4.6a-j; 4.7a-d,f,g,jk;
4.9a-e]
2. What will we need? Human
Needs VS4e VS3d
Anotações:
VS3d - 1619 General Assembly - provided for safety needs. How will your settlement be governed to make all your group members feel safe?
a) Maslow's hierarchy VS4 e
b) Economics: Limited
Resources VS3a,f
c) Reasons for
Colonization VS3a
PBL Entry Event
Anotações:
Set the scene of early 16th century London? Then read a letter aloud from a cousin in the Jamestowne colony. The recipient of the letter is each student in the room. The cousin describes the conditions and tells the "readers" that they would do a better job than the leaders of Jamestowne and urges the reader to garner investments and come and make their fortune in VA - ? include a map of VA and hearsay from Indians about different regions to explore.
Driving Question:
How can you, as a colonial era entrepreneur, convince investors,
to finance a new settlement in a new location in Virginia?
1. How to write a successful
business plan: Guest speaker [ELA 4.2b; 4.1b,c]
Anotações:
Connect to persuasive writing
5. Where? 5 Regions of VA Virtual Field Trip VS1i;
VS2b, c [Comp/Tech 3-5.7]
Geographic
features VS4c, VS3b
Transportation VS2c
Climate [Science 4.6a-c]
Natural Resources [Science 4.9a-d]
Anotações:
What natural resources were sold for profit in colonial era?
Who lives here
already? VS2d
3. Mistakes are where new
learning happens. What can
we learn from Jamestown?
VS1a-i; VS3f [Visual Arts
4.18-9; [Health 4.1c,h,i,j &
4.2r]]
Location, location VS3b
Need for better
collaboration VS3f
Agriculture, Habitats,
human impact on the land
VS3a; VS4a,f; [Science 4.5d,f]
Spread of disease
VS3f [Health 4.1j]
More diverse
population/workforce
VS3e,f; VS4a
Successful businesses VS3a VS4e
Interaction with Indians VS3f,g
4. We Are Collaborators: How
can we work better with Indian
tribes? VS1b; VS2e; VS3g
Anotações:
Individualistic vs. collectivistic
What do they want?
How can we help them? How can they help us? Two way collaboration. Compromises. Learn from each other
6. Creating the Plan [Comp/Tech
3.5 7,10,11; Math 4.14; ELA
4.7a-d,f,g,jk; 4.9a-e]
What:Product? VS4a
Anotações:
How will you make your fortune?
What natural resources will you use to make your product e.g. tobacco, timber,
Who: workforce VS3e
VS4a
Anotações:
What will your workforce/population look like? Diversity - women, craftsmen, leaders, workers - indentured servants vs. slaves etc
How:
Money,
barter, credit VS4d
Tools, imports VS3f
Transportation
plan VS2c
Anotações:
Must include how to get workforce and imports there and how to export product back
Where VS3b, VS4c
Why
Anotações:
Persuade investors - persuasive writing.
When VS1f
Anotações:
Timeline. When in the colonial era are you planning to make your settlement - what events will you need to consider. Who has already settled the area by the time you are planning to move there etc. How long will it take to get there, set up, and make a return on the investment.