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Explorer Unit

Explorer Unit



Please Note:
Parents should preview this controversial book before using it with their children.  If this is you child's first introduction to explorer's, you might want to find some substitute books.

Lesson Cards & Printables by Wende


Explorer Lessons/Activity Cards
Print the lesson/activity card file and the corresponding notebooking pages below.  You will also need to gather the books ahead of time (see library list).   This unit is dependent on internet links for some of the independent activities; you may want to print the information ahead of time or save the links to a favorites folder for easy access for your student. 


Notebooking Pages

Marco Polo
Prince Henry
Bartholomew Diaz
Christopher Columbus
Vasco da Gama
Pedro Cabral
John Cabot
Amerigo Vespucci
Ponce de Leon
Balboa
Ferdinand Magellan
Cortes
Coronado

Explorer Timeline Pieces


Necessary Links

Lesson 1
Make a Sphere

Lesson 3
Longitude and Latitude Activity.

Lesson 5
Make an
Astrolabe

Lesson 6
Complete Ship Diagram

Lesson 8
Make a Quadrant

Lesson 9
Research Diseases

Lesson 13
Navigation Worksheet 2


Library List
Around the World in a Hundred Years by Jean Fritz
Explorers Activity Book by John Artman (ISBN 0-86653-340-0)
The Usborne Book of Explorers
P
edro’s Journal
by Conrad
A Child's History of the World by V. M. Hillyer
The King’s Fifth by Scott O’Dell
Conquista! By Clyde Robert Bulla