Lessons and Activities

You Wouldn't Want To Be A Polar Explorer!

Get ready...as a brave young sailor looking for adventure, you are about to join Ernest Shackleton’s expedition to icy Antarctica as a polar explorer. This book tells of Shackleton's polar exploration and is written in the present tense. It has illustrations with mouse-over speech bubbles.

• Grade Level(s):

  Gr. 2 | Age 8, Gr. 3 | Age 9, Gr. 4 | Age 10, Gr. 5 | Age 11, Gr. 6 | Age 12

• Subjects:

  Discovery & Exploration

• Language:

  English

• Posted:

  Feb. 9, 2010

Posted by:

laineym

Columbus Day

Brief .ink file to review Columbus facts with your students in honor of Columbus Day.

• Grade Level(s):

  Gr. 1 | Age 7, Gr. 2 | Age 8, Gr. 3 | Age 9, Gr. 4 | Age 10, Gr. 5 | Age 11

• Subjects:

  Discovery & Exploration

• Language:

  English

• Posted:

  Feb. 7, 2010

Posted by:

cbrown

Kansas Day Facts

A simple Mimio lesson on a few of the symbols of Kansas. This can be used as an introduction of Kansas or a review.

• Grade Level(s):

  Gr. 1 | Age 7, Gr. 2 | Age 8, Gr. 3 | Age 9, Gr. 4 | Age 10

• Subjects:

  Discovery & Exploration

• Language:

  English

• Posted:

  Jan. 25, 2010

Posted by:

mjennings11@cox.net

Enlightenment Thinkers

SOL WH II.6 (VA) World History II lesson introducing contributions of Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Voltaire, & Jefferson

• Grade Level(s):

  Gr. 10 | Age 16

• Subjects:

  Discovery & Exploration

• Language:

  English

• Posted:

  Nov. 3, 2009

Posted by:

gmackay

Ottomans, Mughals, China & Japan 1600s

SOL WH II.5 (VA) Lesson is brief look at empires Europe attempted to deal and trade with 1500-1700.

• Grade Level(s):

  Gr. 10 | Age 16

• Subjects:

  Discovery & Exploration

• Language:

  English

• Posted:

  Nov. 3, 2009

Posted by:

gmackay

Age of Discovery

SOL WH II.4 (VA) Gr 10 World History II European explorers of New World and Asia

• Grade Level(s):

  Gr. 10 | Age 16

• Subjects:

  Discovery & Exploration

• Language:

  English

• Posted:

  Nov. 3, 2009

Posted by:

gmackay

Age of Exploration Interactive!

This interactive lessons teaching students basic world geography, vocabulary, as well as about famous explorers during the Age of Exploration.

• Grade Level(s):

  Gr. 8 | Age 14

• Subjects:

  Discovery & Exploration

• Language:

  English

• Posted:

  Oct. 9, 2009

Posted by:

Paul Gigliotti   

Map Gallery

Various maps from around the world.

• Grade Level(s):

  Gr. K | Age 6, Gr. 1 | Age 7, Gr. 2 | Age 8, Gr. 3 | Age 9, Gr. 4 | Age 10, Gr. 5 | Age 11, Gr. 6 | Age 12, Gr. 7 | Age 13, Gr. 8 | Age 14, Gr. 9 | Age 15, Gr. 10 | Age 16, Gr. 11 | Age 17, Gr. 12 | Age 18, Hr. Ed. | Age 19+

• Subjects:

  Discovery & Exploration

• Language:

  English

• Posted:

  Sep. 25, 2009

Posted by:

Anonymous