ICS Inter-Community School Library: Individuals & Societies: Global Interactions, Trade & Power@Gr.8

Possible Keywords

Keywords for Columbian Exchange project are: Columbian Exchange, Great Exchange, Christopher Columbus, Conquest of the Americas, Age of Discovery, Age of Exploration, Food, Animal, Disease

Inquiry/Research Questions: How the items (such as Food, Animal) of the Columbian Exchange have impacted the world today?

Columbian Exchange Project Guideline

Animals

The Columbian Exchange: Plants, Animals, and Disease between the Old and New Worlds
Humans have in the very last tick of time reversed the ancient trend of geographical biodiversification.
List of animals brought to the new world
A list of important Animals brought to the new world...
Animals and the columbian exchange
Animals and the columbian exchange and the affect they had on the world
Animals of the Columbian Exchange
A presentation

Foods

Food history: a timeline
Up until about 10 000 years ago, all human beings were hunter-gatherers. This means that they moved from place to place to find food.
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Gives a little information about food prior to Columbus on the timeline.
Columbian Exchange-Food
Rice, Maize, Potato, Smallpox
Foods of the Columbian Exchange
How did the Columbian Exchange shape food culture in the modern world?
History of Vegetables and Columbian Exchange
The history about each Vegetables...

Diseases

Disease and catastrophe
Of all the kinds of life exchanged when the Old and New Worlds met, lowly germs had the greatest impact.
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Disease & catastrophe
Diseases of the Columbian Exchange
A list of diseases during Columbian Exchange ...
Transmission of diseases during Columbian Exchange
A list of diseases that brought to the New World and Old World...
The Columbian Exchange: A History of Disease, Food, and Ideas
The Columbian Exchange refers to the exchange of diseases, ideas, food, crops, and populations between the New World and the Old World following the voyage to the Americas by Christopher Columbus in 1492.
The Columbian Exchange: Plants, Animals, and Disease between the Old and New Worlds
Humans have in the very last tick of time reversed the ancient trend of geographical biodiversification.

Library Databases with Columbian Exchange Articles

BrainPOP This link opens in a new window
BrainPOP is an educational website with over 1,000 short animated movies, together with quizzes and related materials, covering the subjects of science, social studies, English, mathematics, engineering and technology, health, and arts and music.
Username: icsbrain
Password: icsbrain

Columbian Exchange

Debate

World Book Encyclopedia This link opens in a new window
General Information. Use this source to find out about your topic when you begin research. You can choose Kids, Student or Advanced levels for all topics.
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Password: wbicsz

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Columbian Exchange
Columbian Exchange is the term used to describe the exchange of plants, animals, and diseases between Afro-Eurasia (Africa, Europe, and Asia) and the Americas.
Columbian Exchange
This map shows some of the things that travelers carried across the Atlantic Ocean from Africa, Asia, and Europe to the Americas, and vice versa.
Columbian Exchange
Columbian Exchange is a term that describes the exchange of plants, animals, and diseases between the Americas and Africa, Asia, and Europe.
Exploration: The Age of European Exploration
By the 1400's, many Europeans wanted to buy products from Asia.

Britannica School Encyclopedia This link opens in a new window
General information. Good for finding out about a topic when you begin research. Includes up-to-date information sources and allows you to move easily to material of higher or lower reading levels as needed.
User ID: icszlibrary
Password: icszlibrary

Europe: The Age of Exploration
The section titled "The Age of Exploration" talks about the Columbian Exchange.
Columbian Exchange
Image. European exploration of the Americas in the 15th and 16th centuries brought the so-called Old and New Worlds into contact with each other.
Latin America: Conquest and Colonialism
The section on "Conquest and Colonialism" talks about the Columbian Exchange.
Early Exploration of the Americas: The Age of Discovery (or the Age of Exploration)
The section "The Age of Discovery (or the Age of Exploration)" talks about the Columbian Exchange.

WebPath Express This link opens in a new window
Access 85,000+ trustworthy and relevant PreK-12 websites. Provides website content and age-appropriate results separated by grade level.
No login is needed when accessed through the library website. Or Copy the following link on a new web browser [https://icsz.follettdestiny.com] and then Select ICS Library>Click Catalog>Click WebPath Express.

Here are some good websites about the Columbian Exchange!

Britannica ImageQuest This link opens in a new window
Imagery and clip art materials (infographics, signs and symbols, graphic concepts, and cool vector illustrations), all are rights-cleared for educational, non-commercial use.
Password: icsz followed by your last name
example: icszmatter

EBSCO Explora This link opens in a new window
EBSCO Explora provides general information, including research articles, magazines, newspapers, videos, and articles in many languages. It searches these databases: Science Reference Center, Newspaper Source, Literary Reference Center, and Health Source.
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Extra Websites about Columbian Exchange

Columbian Exchange from Khan Academy
Columbus's voyage connected the Americas, Europe, and Africa in a web of exchange that transformed the environments of the Old World and the New World...
The Columbian Exchange Summary & Analysis
Columbus: Discovery, Ecology, and Conquest and Unequal Exchange: Food for Disease
The Columbian Exchange
While historians still debate whether Columbus was the first to discover America, there is little doubt he was the first to initiate what is known today as “The Columbian Exchange.”
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This website is excellent for the list of goods exchanged.
The Columbian Exchange: An Overview
Discover the goods traded between the Americas and Europe — including produce, plants, and animals — thanks to Columbus's voyages.
The World FactBook
The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.
What was the Columbian Exchange?
Christopher Columbus borrowed money, sailed the wrong way, to find what he thought were the coastal islands of Eastern India. His “discovery” has had a centuries long impact for both fortune and catastrophe.

Resources About Columbian Exchange

Columbian Exchange Chapter
Beck, Roger B., et al. "The Columbian Exchange and Global Trade." World History: Patterns of Interaction, McDougal Littell, 2005, pp. 571-75.

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