Explorers Chaning of the World in the Age of Exploration and Discovery
Guiding Questions Made Own:  How do discoveries from exploration change the world?
How did money play a role in exploration and development
What changes when things are discovered?
Learning Outcome Critical Content Online Lesson Online Resource Offline Lesson Offline Resource EALRS Reading Integrated Writing Integrated
                 
Understanding historical times as it relates to simulataneously occruing events                
  Vikings Finding out about how explorers discoveries changed world veiws http://wwwbir.bham.wednet.edu/Class/hinshaw/socst/explorer.htm How did we learn about early explorers?  Vikings: Page 199-120      
  Italians     Marco Polo     Pedro's Journal - Historcial Fiction  
  Spanish and Portuguese     Prince Henry   Columbus   Vesuppuci, Balboa, Malgellan pgs 138-144      
  Dutch              
  English              
  French              
                 
Identify Conditions leading to exploration of various times and places Cartography Create a Map of a written description Map Maker Map Maker Make me a Map          
  Behaims globe changing views of the world Changing Views - Students  Maps  The known world  page 121-123      
  New tools and new ships Changing Knowledge   How did portual lead the way in findin a water route? Prince Henry Naviagtation School  - changes in government lead to exploration Porugual: page 127-129      
  Land Routes and Sea routes Using Encarta Atlas to locate places and the historical atlas    Lesson 1: WORLD Map: Students will use a world map to identify locations and routes they read and encounter World Map  Historical Atlas pages                      Vikings page 10         Internationa Trade page 12-13                Portugues Routes page 13                      Spanish English page 14-15      
        Lesson2: The need for spice  a condition that led to exploration Marco Polo - page 124-126      
        Lesson 3:  Spices Book  Students create an actual sample spice book Spices      
  Search for gold and riches to fund treasuries              
  Fountain of Youth              
  Trade              
  Land              
  Freedom              
  Timelines for exploration              
  Challenges A Sailor's Life - Students will read about what a sailors life is like and complete a web sheet the Life as a Sailor  Things that limited exploration Page 121     Historical Fiction Journal form based on acuarte facts
                 
Understand that exploration had significan't influence on cultural development and change in Europe                
  Cultural Interaction              
  Conflict              
Cooperation