Exploration

Web Lessons

WWW Links

Explorers Biographies
Today's Explorers
Primary Explorer Resources
Marco Polo's Route

Maps: What role did maps play in the exploration of the New World?

Changing Knowledge:
Find out what changes help explorer discover the New World. Use this think sheet to help record your discoveries.

Life of a Sailor: What was life like on board?
Use the Life of A Sailor Web to capture your ideas.

Explorers Who Changed the WORLD forever!

Find out about who were the explorers? Where did they explore? Who did they explore for? Why did they go? What did they discover? Did they change the world?

Use the think sheet to find out how the early explorers of 1400 changed our world forever!

Research Investigations

The Spice of Life

Integrated Activities

Write a Saga: An adventure story that tells about brave deeds of people long ago

Unit Essentials
Understand historical time as it relates to simultaneously occurring events

Identify the conditions leading to exploration in various times and places

Understand that exploration had significant influence on cultural development and change in Europe and the Americas

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