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Subject

Social Studies (NYS K-12 Framework Common Core)

Web-based Resource

Access this resource at: http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0875904.html

Description

This site provides information on Columbus' four voyages, believing he was headed to the "Indies". The text and two minute video discuss the confusion over where Columbus landed in the New World.

Content Provider

FactMonster

Submitted By

Patricia Parkinson, Educator
Technology in Education Mentor Project (TEMP)
Niagara Falls City School

Related Academic Standards

New York State

SS.5.3.a.1 Students will investigate explorers from different European countries and map the areas of the Western Hemisphere where they explored including Christopher Columbus, John Cabot, Jacques Cartier, Pedro Cabral, and Vasco Nunez de Balboa.

RH.5-8.6 Identify aspects of a text that reveal an author's point of view or purpose (e.g., loaded language, inclusion or avoidance of particular facts).

SS.E.1.4A Students consider different interpretations of key events and/or issues in history and understand the differences in these accounts.

SS.E.2.1B Students explore narrative accounts of important events from world history to learn about different accounts of the past to begin to understand how interpretations and perspectives develop.