Early Explorers Bundle Comprehension Passages & Activities Age of Exploration
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Our Early Explorers Bundle has reading comprehension passages and lots of engaging activities to learn about the Age of Exploration. This bundle includes 7 early explorers: Ponce de Leon, Henry Hudson, Hernando de Soto, Balboa, John Cabot, Jacques Cartier, and Columbus.
What's Inside:
✔Early Explorers Unit with 7 Famous Explorers
✔A PowerPoint Presentation (70 slides)
✔Early Explorers Timeline Poster Kit
✔Explorers Trading Cards
✔Explorers Flip Book Bundle (7)
Students will learn about these European explorers:
- Hernando de Soto--NEW Digital Unit Added!
- John Cabot--New Digital Unit Added!
- Vasco Nunez de Balboa--New Digital Unit Added!
- Juan Ponce de Leon--NEW Digital Unit Added!
- Christopher Columbus--NEW Digital Unit Added!
- Henry Hudson--New Digital Unit Added!
- Jacques Cartier--New Digital Unit Added!
**Please NOTE each unit in the bundle has the same information and activities to introduce the unit about each explorer.
Reading passages and activities will help students think about the essential questions such as:
*Why were the Europeans interested in world exploration?
*How did the Native Americans and explorers impact each other?
*What were some of the obstacles the explorers had to overcome in the New World?
This unit includes many interactive activities and creative learning opportunities geared for elementary students including:
✔Comprehension Questions & Answer Keys
✔Instruments for Navigation Activity
✔Vocabulary Posters
✔Vocabulary Flip Flaps
✔Writing Prompts
✔Explorers Organizers
✔Timeline Poster Kit
✔Explorer Timeline Mini-Booklets
✔Explorers Flip Books (7)
There are informational articles and related student activities about:
✔The Age of Exploration
✔The Explorers Voyage to the New World
✔Native Americans & Explorers--impacts, trading, relationships
✔Explorers Instruments for Navigation
✔Meet Vasco Nunez de Balboa
✔Meet John Cabot (and Sebastian Cabot)
✔Meet Jacques Cartier
✔Meet Christopher Columbus
✔Meet Henry Hudson
✔Meet Juan Ponce de Leon
✔For Elementary Grades – Second grade, Third grade, Fourth grade, Fifth grade
✔Great for Core Knowledge
✔Common Core Aligned
Be sure to check out the PREVIEW for more information.
Have students read the passages about the Age of Exploration, Native Americans & Explorers, and Instruments for Navigation and each individual explorer. Then they can complete the activities for related to each passage.
Introduce the 12 vocabulary words with the real-life photo posters included. You could post these posters around the classroom and have students travel around to match up and define the words in their flip flaps or use as a center activity. These posters are excellent for a bulletin board display too. Also, the vocabulary cards are a great hands-on, challenging activity to get them thinking critically. There are also colorful maps included for students to visualize where these amazing explorers journeys.
Next, create a learning station for each of the six explorers. In a folder at each station include the two reading passages about each explorer, voyage map, and organizers for students to complete. There are also flip books for each explorer for students to complete and paste inside their notebook or a lapbook.
In the PowerPoint Presentation, there are 70 slides about:
✔John Cabot
✔Vasco Nunez de Balboa
✔Juan Ponce de Leon
✔Christopher Columbus
✔Henry Hudson
✔Jacques Cartier
Also included is information about:
✔The Age of Exploration
✔The Explorers Voyage to the New World
✔Native Americans & Explorers--impacts, trading, relationships
✔Explorers Instruments for Navigation
✔Vasco Nunez de Balboa
✔John Cabot
✔Jacques Cartier
✔Christopher Columbus
✔Henry Hudson
✔Juan Ponce de Leon
✔Quiz with answer key
✔Vocabulary Slides
✔For Upper Elementary Grades - Third grade, Fourth grade, Fifth grade
✔Common Core Aligned
Be sure to check out the PREVIEW for more information.
Meets NEW Georgia Standards of Excellence
SS3H2: The student will describe European exploration in North America
a. Describe the reasons for, obstacles to, and accomplishments of the Spanish, French, and English explorations of John Cabot, Vasco Nunez de Balboa, Hernando de Soto, Jacques Cartier, Henry Hudson, and Christopher Columbus.
b. Describe examples of cooperation and conflict between Europeans and Native Americans.
CHECK OUT MY OTHER EXPLORERS ACTIVITY PACKS
Explorers of the New World PACK #1
Explorers of the New World PACK #2
Francisco Pizarro Unit & Flip Book
Hernando de Soto Unit & Flip Book
Ponce de Leon Unit & Flip Book
Hernan Cortes Unit & Flip Book
Francisco Coronado Unit & Flip Book
Jacques Cartier Unit & Flip Book
Samuel de Champlain Unit & Flip Book
Amerigo Vespucci Unit & Flip Book
Explorers Pack #1 PowerPoint Presentation
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