Routes of Exploration to the New World
This week's Social Studies focused on eight European explorers who impacted early exploration. The students who
do not participate in strings were the "expert" explorer. They each learned the information about one explorer and
presented that to the class in small groups. The information we focused on was:
What was their prior occupation?
What country sponsored their exploration?
What was their motivation for exploration?
What was their route of exploration?
What was the timeline of their exploration?
What was the impact their discoveries had on the world and the native people in the areas they "discovered"?
What was their prior occupation?
What country sponsored their exploration?
What was their motivation for exploration?
What was their route of exploration?
What was the timeline of their exploration?
What was the impact their discoveries had on the world and the native people in the areas they "discovered"?
Throughout all of our work with these early explorers we will continue to emphasize the fact that there were already people living in the "New World" and that there were explorers from other countries and different parts of the world who were also engaging in exploration at this time or even earlier.
