Standard 3: Exploration and Settlement of North America

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Number: SS.5.A.3
Title: Exploration and Settlement of North America
Type: Standard
Subject: Social Studies
Grade: 5
Strand: American History

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SS.5.A.3.AP.1
Recognize inventions that made exploration safer.
SS.5.A.3.AP.2
Identify a European explorer with their sponsoring country.
SS.5.A.3.AP.3
Recognize ways different groups interacted with each other for control of North America.

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Museum Dilemma:

In this MEA, students evaluate the contributions of various explorers to help a museum select the subject who provided the most impact on Western development for a new exhibit. Students will need to convert units to have the necessary information to help come up with a solution to the problem.

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