Explorer Research |
Creating Individual Timelines |
Explorer Poster and Class Timeline |
The World at the Time |
Unit Overview: The Age of Exploration: A Class Timeline is an interdisciplinary unit that introduces students to the age of exploration and discovery. Students use the Internet to research expeditions and their leaders that led to the exploration of the New World and the colonization of North America. The students use an online timeline generator to create their own explorer timeline, and then work in groups to make posters that are displayed on a classroom timeline. The unit builds knowledge and understanding of the world during this period as the students research other events and discoveries in the areas of literature, art, music, science, politics and religion.
Timeline: This unit may take anywhere from two to three weeks depending on the availability of the computers and the amount of class time the instructor is willing to spare.