A History of Exploration

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A History of Exploration LI: To be able to create timelines showing important dates/ events Starter: Complete the crossword using the information that you collected about the key explorers Note: there is a mistake – what is it?

Timelines Events set out in some sort of line in the order in which they happened. A timeline gives a date and a short description of an event. Dates can either be from a single year or fir a period of time.

A timeline should be/ have… Title (underlined) Ruled (using a ruler) Even scale between dates Even scale dates eg: 10 years, 50 years, 100 years) Exact dates of event Brief description of event

Creating a timeline of Explorers On the next slide is a list of explorers and their important dates. Using the conventions of creating timelines that we have just learnt, create a timeline showing important dates for the Age of Discovery.

TIME EVENT 1271-1295 Marco Polo travelled to the Far East (China) 1325 Ibn Batutta sets out on his first journey 1492 Christopher Columbus discovers the Americas – what we know today as the west Indies 1498 Vasco de Gama first travelled to India around the tip of Africa 1497 John Cabot sails to Nova Scotia in Canada 1520-1521 Ferdinand Magellan’s ship circumnavigated the globe – Magellan was killed during the trip 1577-1580 Sir Francis Drake is the first successful captain to circumnavigate the globe 1642 Dutch seafarer Abel Tasman sights New Zealand 1769 Captain James Cook discovers New Zealand

AGE OF EXPLORATION Create an Acrostic poem using the words ‘Age of Exploration. Use words that are relevant to the topic of explorers.