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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
Pedro’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