European explorers

Winter is great time for kids to learn about different explorers. Use these {free} printables, books and activities to create a fun-filled Explorers unit and head off on your own explorations around the house! :: www.homeschoolgiveaways.com

We use a world explorers game for two players to learn about world explorers and the ways they were similar and different in their quests.

Our Explorer unit is in full swing now and things are moving along quite nicely. After a brief oral retelling by me about how the world was, for all intents and purposes, two separate entities, since the oceans kept the two major hemispheres apart, we launched into a reading about the various reasons why the early European explorers decided to explore in the first place. Now, each year I do this with the students and, in the past, I had the students create a little flipbook of those reasons…

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Make explorers come to life with this FUN project!

Bring Age of Exploration history to life for kids with this interactive unit complete with lesson plans, activities, projects, and answer keys! Help your students fall in love with history! These lessons and projects are especially great for kids in 5th grade, 6th grade, 7th grade, and 8th grade. Save yourself a ton of prep time and check it out today! #5thGrade #MiddleSchool #Interactive

Learn about 13 famous European explorers for kids with these free printable worksheets to read, color, learn, and create a reader.

Age of Exploration printable timeline of important dates from Henry the Navigator to Henry Hudson. Place on your timeline in your notebook or on your wall.

A few classroom activities/projects to get the kids thinking about early European Exploration. A flipbook on reasons for exploring and a map for sea monsters with descriptive writing.

Learn about Early Explorers for Kids with this fun, 5-week history lesson unit for elementary age kids to learn about the Vikings, Columbus, Magellan, and more!