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Grade 3 Social Studies · World 6: New Lands, New Neighbors · Level 42
Conflict and Change
Examples of conflict, and the diseases that made many American Indians sick.
Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.
What children learn in Level 42
- Conflict means a fight or a strong disagreement. Explorers and American Indians often had conflicts.
- Explorers claimed land where American Indians already lived, so they fought over it. Some explorers took captives or forced people to work, like Columbus did to the Taíno.
- The saddest change was disease. Europeans carried sicknesses, like smallpox, that American Indians had never had. Their bodies couldn't fight them, and many people died.
- Let's think in causes and effects. A cause is why something happens. An effect is what happens because of it. Cause: new diseases. Effect: many people got sick.
- Other changes went both ways. The Spanish brought horses, and later Plains nations rode them to hunt bison. Corn and potatoes from the Americas went to Europe.
Georgia Standards of Excellence in Social Studies:
- SS3H2.c — Describe examples of cooperation and conflict between European explorers and American Indians.
- IPS.5 — Information Processing Skill 5: identify main idea, detail, sequence of events, and cause and effect in a social studies context (developing in Grade 3)