Teaching Guide: Examining Exploration of the Americas

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Keywords
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History-Social Science
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Grade 6 Grade 7 Grade 8 Grade 9 Grade 10 Grade 11 Grade 12 Post-Secondary
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Teaching Guide: Examining Exploration of the Americas

This teaching guide helps instructors use a specific primary source set, Exploration of the Americas, in the classroom. It offers discussion questions, classroom activities, and primary source analysis tools. It is intended to spark pedagogical creativity by giving a sample approach to the material. Please feel free to share, reuse, and adapt the resources in this guide for your teaching purposes.
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