1. Explorer Unit Reasons for Early Exploration

2. Learning Target I can explain reasons for early exploration.

3. Explorer Pre-Quiz What do you already know?

4. Question #1 What explorer was a real life Viking?

5. Question #2 What year did Columbus sail the ocean blue?

6. Question #3 What explorer was looking for the fountain of youth?

7. Question #4 What explorer has a famous water game named after him?

8. Question #5 What explorer circumnavigated the globe?

9. Answers #1- Leif Erikkson #2- 1492 #3- Ponce de Leon #4- Marco Polo #5- Ferdinand Magellan

10. Learning Target I can explain reasons for early exploration.

11. 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

12. 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)

13. 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 8 th -10 th …