Columbian Exchange Assignment for Eighth Graders

Your assignment for today—due tomorrow:

On the right-hand side of your history notebook, write a definition of The Columbian Exchange. It is fine by me if you use one from a dictionary or encyclopedia if and only if you understand the definition.

Then you need to create a list or chart of items (crops, foods, animals, ideas, etc.) that were part of the Columbian Exchange. You need at least ten that went from the Old World to the New, and ten that went from the New World to the Old. I always appreciate those who find entries that other classmates do not find.

Accuracy counts.