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Age of
Exploration Teachers Guide: Online
activities and lesson plans for teachers to use with a unit of study on
Explorers. Great lessons include: What would you take to sea?, Starving
Sailors, Latitude and Longitude, and Creating a Compass and
Globe.
: Use
this well developed web quest to send your students on an exploration of
some of the well-known North America explorers. The site includes lesson
plans, sites, language arts connections, standards, and additional links
for the student and teacher.
Columbus Day (Native American Perspective): Use this lesson plan to think through the holiday of Columbus Day from a Native American point of view. Conquistador’s: Teacher lesson plans for the site Conquistador’s or a separate unit of study on the Spanish explorers. Crossroads Middle School Curriculum: Unit two in this site entitled Europe and America meet gives the user several maps, record sheets and fact sheets about explorers between the years of 1492-1673. Culture Explorer Lessons for Upper Elementary: This one page lesson gives even the beginning teacher a place to start organizing their explorer research.Early Explorers of the Americas: A fifth grade thematic unit with lesson plans, standards, and activities to start an explorer exploration. Explorers Theme Page: This site is divided into two sections. The first part contains links for students and teachers to access information on explorers. The second half is for teachers to access lesson plans and activities for grades K-12. Lesson 1: The Lewis and Clark Exploration: If exploring the Louisiana Purchase is your goal this site will give you one more idea for tying Social Studies to Science and Language Arts. |
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Lesson Plans