Materials

• Blank outline map of the world
• Text/other reading

Instructional Activities

NOTE: The following Web resource may be helpful in teaching this session:

• Triangular Slave Trade. <http://www.nmm.ac.uk/freedom/viewTheme.cfm/theme/triangular>.

1. Review the activities from the previous session.
   
   
2. Explain that the competition for trade led to the African slave trade.
   
   
3. Distribute a blank outline map of the world. Explain the triangular trade. Instruct students to indicate the goods being traded by drawing arrows that indicate the direction of trade and drawing pictures of the types of products traded.
   
   
4. Assign a teacher-selected reading, worksheet, or other reinforcement activity.