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Additional Search Results 21 - 30 of 366 for Explorers
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21. Route Reconstruction
Route Reconstruction Goals: To trace sailing route of Spanish and Portuguese exploration ships. To calculate and compare distances that different explorers traveled. To calculate how long it would take to travel an explorer's route using different velocities. Content Areas: Social Studies - Spanish and Portuguese explorers, map skills Math - measuring distances Materials: Large (4 ft by 8 ft) map of the world (possibly laminated) Colored pencils Marker...
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22. The Silk Highway
...th grade American History Approximate time: 50 minutes Materials: pen, paper, handout Objectives: The student will draw a map of the silk highway and explain how it worked. The student will identify the reasons why European monarchs wanted a direct route to Asia. The student will identify the early explorers to Asia. Set/Warm up: Johnny, give me a brief overview of how the Silk Highway worked. TTW field answers from the student. Johnny today we are going to finish our study of the Silk Highway and move into something that involves destruction, adventure and treasure. It almost sounds like an introductio...
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23. Jacques Cartier - Intermediate
...ew This lesson is based on viewing the Historica Minute, "Jacques Cartier," which presents the theory that Canada may have been named after a misunderstanding took place between Jacques Cartier and the Iroquois people. Aims Students will explore the relationships between the First Nations and early explorers by looking at the First Nations' contributions to European survival, and issues of miscommunication. Activity 1. Learning from the Natives When we study exploration and settlement, we sometimes neglect the Native contributions to the Europeans' survival in Canada. Research the problems that the earl...
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24. Unit 2 Grade 3 Lesson 2 Discovering the World of l492
...? Was anyone thinking: "Boy, this is going to be an extraordinary year!" The classroom will become the world of the l5th century as students research, illustrate, and present reports on various aspects of European culture. Bulletin boards should display maps of 1492; display the kinds of things the explorers were trading in the east spices, silks, jewels (costume jewelry and old silk scarves will do). These articles should be displayed in a setting that includes books on the explorers and other available pictures and materials. Students will use their understanding of the term culture and the research s...
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25. Let's Write
...Arkansas History Books?See media specialist, local public library or historical society. 3. Encyclopedias?Online or book 4. Internet 5. Video clips?AETN Streaming Directions: Have each student or group of students choose an area of Arkansas and describe in at least three paragraphs how early French explorers explored and influenced the area.
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26. Journey of exploration
...National Geographic special on television? Which ones have you seen? What types of subjects are discussed on the programs? 2. Have students read the CNNfyi article, "The treasure seekers." _ 3. For review, ask students to answer the following questions: List the scientific areas represented by the explorers. What areas of the world have they explored? List the areas or places they would like to explore as a result of the support they will receive from the National Geographic Society. 4. Divide the class into seven groups and assign each group one of the seven explorers. Each group is to give a detailed...
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27. Unit 2 Grade 3 Lesson 3 Meeting Explorers by Reading Biographies
Information Institute of Syracuse _ Printer friendly text Search Lessons Write a Lesson Plan Guide Lesson Plan : CC-0048 Selection Criteria Copyright Statement Lesson 3: Meeting Explorers by Reading Biographies Objectives: The student will be able to: 1. understand the difference between a novel and a biography. 2. understand that a biography describes a person's entire life from birth to death. 3. understand that when we read biographies we learn things about that person and the tim...
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28. Voyages in a Bottle Lesson Plan
Crayola Submit Register for FREE! Join the Crayola community today. Voyages in a Bottle Why Create a fitting tribute to explorers of the high seas. Design tiny sailing ships in a recycled plastic bottle. Steps 1. Imagine the bravery needed to be an explorer! Think about getting in a ship and heading where no one else has gone. Explorers often brought misery to the indigenous people they came upon and their exploits changed the...
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29. Kajiura-Developing Intercultural Awareness (ITESLJ)
...their creativity. Place the students in two different rooms, so the groups cannot look at or overhear each other. In each room, they create their body language and other rules of social interaction. Then students within each group practice with each other, following their rules. In the next stage, explorers from each culture travel to the other culture with instructions to interact and observe the foreign group's body language, conversation rules, sex roles, etc.. During this stage each group has foreign guests. Give them three to five minutes to interact. Then the foreigners return to their home cultu...
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30. Brrrr! Expeditions to the North and South Poles
...of the 20^th century, without all the communication devices, all-weather clothing, and other improvements we have today to make exploration safer. 3. Divide the class in half. From one half, create as many groups of three as possible, assigning students in each group to research the North Pole explorers (Peary, Henson, and Cook). From the other half, create as many groups of two as possible, assigning students in each group to research the South Pole explorers (Scott and Amundsen). Each student should be researching one explorer 4. Each students should be sure to include the following in his o...
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