Explorer UnitReasons for Early Exploration

Learning Target

• I can explain reasons for early exploration.

Explorer Pre-Quiz

What do you already know?

Question #1

• What explorer was a real life Viking?

Question #2

• What year did Columbus sail the ocean blue?

Question #3

• What explorer was looking for the fountain of youth?

Question #4

• What explorer has a famous water game named after him?

Question #5

• What explorer circumnavigated the globe?

Answers

#1- Leif Erikkson

#2- 1492

#3- Ponce de Leon

#4- Marco Polo

#5- Ferdinand Magellan

Learning Target

• I can explain reasons for early exploration.

Explorers

• Leif Eriksson

• Sir Francis Drake

• Marco Polo

• Sir Walter Raleigh

• Vasco Da Gama

• Vasco Nunez de Balboa

• Giovanni da Verrazzano

• Henry Hudson

• Cabeza de Vaca

• Prince Henry

• Roald Amundson

• Francisco Vasquez de Coronado

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Hernando de Soto

• Ponce De Leon

• Bartolomeu Dias

• Amerigo Vespucci

• John Cabot

• Jacques Cartier

• Jacques Marquette/Louis Joliet

• Samuel de Champlain

• Robert LaSalle

• Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo

Expectations:

• Need to include:

• Who your explorer is?

• *Why: reason for exploration? Explain in detail.• Gold, Glory, Religion, Trade Routes, Etc.

• What did they discover?

• When did it take place?

• Where? (Google Earth)

Presentations

• You will get 2-3 minutes to creatively share the 5 W’s on your explorer with the class.

• Google Earth will take about 30 seconds.

• Presentation are October 8th-10th…