The Story of the U.S.A Book 1

Chapter 3

Columbus Comes to America

Columbus  (T-1)

Choose from the books below:

Christopher Columbus  (T-1) (We prefer this book to the one directly below.)
OR
Where do You Think Your'e Going Christopher Columbus?
This book is NOT necessary if you watch the movie with the same title instead.

Pedro’s Journal (T-1)
*Please see book notes for a study guide that goes with this book.
Optional: Take a Quiz at Book Adventure.com and win points toward prizes!

Optional Reading: 1492 The Year of the New World 90 pages
*Please see book notes for a study guide that goes with this book.

This Country of Ours Selections 2, 3, 4 and 5
*This is an optional read-aloud from a free online text.
2.The Sea of Darkness and the Great Faith of Columbus
3. How Columbus Fared Forth on the Sea of Darkness and Came to Pleasant Lands Beyond
4. How Columbus Returned Home in Triumph
5.How America Was Named

Children’s Treasury of Virtues: Sail On! Sail On! (Poem)

History Pockets: Explorers of North America

Pocket 2 Columbus

Fast facts

Map

Old time compass

Writing activity

Hardtack (make it from the recipe and then design a package for it)

*Supplies: flour, baking powder, salt

Christopher Columbus
Download a teacher's guide for the above video (if you wish). The guide has vocabulary, discussion questions and more. I personally didn't find it very useful.

OR

Where Do You Think You're Going, Christopher Columbus?

Map or Globe

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Ptolomy's Map Print out this map created by Ptolomy for your child's notebook. Use it to show how people thought the world was much smaller than it really is. Compare the map to a modern map or globe. What's missing from Ptolomy's map?

See History Pockets (Columbus’ voyage)

See Teacher’s guide PDF(Columbus’ voyage)

See Book Notes for 1492 The Year of the New World (multi-entries)

A ship to cut, paste and put together (flat for notebooking) This will help with ship vocabulary and is also fun to try and figure out how the pieces go. Look up ships online or in a book as a reference if you wish.

Teacher’s guide PDF which includes (all activities below are totally optional based on if you have the time and interest):

Santa Maria see-inside view (with ship vocabulary labels)

Hardtack and 1500’s bean soup recipes

Easy sew sailor’s cap project

15^th century game Nine-men’s Morris

A very nice map of Columbus’ voyage!

Ship illustrations and coloring page(s)

Make a quadrant activity (and learn how to read latitude)

See History Pockets (writing)

Draw Write Now:

p.54-55 Sailing to America: Replace Text with sentences from the D’ Aulaire book

Do the cut & paste notebook activity page / worksheet showing the transfer of materials from the Old World to the New World. This is called the "Columbian Exchange".

The Columbian Exchange Rhyme
Print, read out-loud and put into notebook
Then do this worksheet:
Which Way Did it Go?

See Teacher’s guide (quadrant activity)

Make a real compass activity

See History Pockets (hard tack)

See Teacher’s guide (bean soup)

See Teacher’s guide (easy sew sailor’s cap)

Columbus egg carton boats and map activity