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- Teaching The Age of Exploration
- Age of Exploration Overview
- Age of Exploration Timeline
- Teacher Resources For Learning About The Age of Exploration
- Age of Exploration Pacing Guide
- Age of Exploration Primary Sources
- World Map
- Age of Exploration Videos
- The Atlantic Slave Trade: TED-Ed
- Age of Exploration Picture Books
If you’re a teacher, then you are probably familiar with this scenario: you look at your schedule and realize you’re supposed to teach about a topic you remember little to nothing about! Especially with U.S. history, you want to make sure you teach your students the important facts, but it can be overwhelming to know what needs to be covered. Resea...
What was the Age of Exploration?
The Age of Exploration, or Age of Discovery, refers to a historical period that began in the 1400s and lasted until the the 1600s. The Age of Exploration is a period in European history of extensive overseas exploration. Portugal was one of the first countries to send explorers west, which led many other countries such as England, Holland (The Netherlands), France, and Spain to launch their own expeditions. Image by Universalis, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link During this time explorers had more advanced...
Who were the famous European Explorers?
Famous explorers of this time include Christopher Columbus, Juan Ponce de León, John Cabot, Jacques Cartier, Ferdinand Magellan, Hernán Cortés, Francisco Pizarro, and Francisco Vázquez de Coronado. Columbus before the Queenby Emanuel Leutze, 1843
What were the Effects of the Age of Exploration?
The Age of Exploration led to many changes, both positive and negative. On the one hand, this era increased trade and made mapping the world possible. Negative effects of the Age of Exploration include the spread of fatal diseases, decades of warfare, the destruction of many Indigenous Peoples’ civilizations, and the Atlantic Slave Trade. Other effects are more difficult to define as good or bad, such as the spread of religion, economic globalization, and migration of people between Europe, A...
When teaching the Age of Exploration, or any historical period, it can be helpful for students to have a general timeline of important events and when they occurred.
Now that you’ve the basics, it’s time to dig in deeper! After all, you can’t teach what you don’t know! Here are a few wonderful resources which will help you better understand the Age of Exploration: 1. The Age of Exploration: Crash Course European History– This informative YouTube video gives a great overview of the time period 2. Free Online US ...
One of the hardest things about teaching is time management! How much time should you spend on each subject? What topics are most important? To help you teach the Age of Exploration, I’ve created a two-week pacing guide. Suggested Pacing Guide: Note: Each lesson is around 45 minutes long. This pacing guide is the same one I use in my Age of Explora...
No matter what historical time period you’re teaching, primary sources are such an important resource! Primary sources help students connect with history and feel like real historians! However, with so many primary sources out there it can be time-consuming and overwhelming to find appropriate and relevant ones. To help you when teaching the Age of...
Description of Primary Source:
This map by Martin Waldseemüller is often called “America’s Birth Certificate” because it is the first map that labels America and shows it as a separate land mass.
Class Discussion Questions:
1. What do you see? 2. After looking at the map, what places do you see? 3. What decorative illustrations do you see? What could they mean? 4. Why do you think this map was made? 5. How does it compare to a current world map?
Resources for this Primary Source:
1. View the map(I recommend having students view this one on the computer so they can zoom in. The details are amazing!) 2. Lesson plan(Library of Congress) 3. Student worksheet(National Archives) Need more Age of Exploration Primary Sources? Click here to read the blog post.
Another fabulous resource for teaching the Age of Exploration is videos. Videos help students visualize new information and are a great way to engage reluctant learners. The only problem with videos is they can often include content that isn’t appropriate for the classroom. No one wants to accidentally show something like that in their class, so I’...
Ted Ed’s compelling and quick summary of the Atlantic Slave Trade6 minutesMy rating: age 9+Notes: The animation is excellent and the narration is concise and easy to follow. This would be a great introductory video for teaching about the Atlantic Slave Trade.The last resource I want to highlight for teaching about the Age of Exploration is picture books. Picture books can wonderful for all ages and grade levels! They give information in a simple and engaging way, and they often give more personal perspectives on historical issues.To help save you time, I’ve compiled a teacher-approved list of Age of Ex...
Created by. Literacy in Focus. Engage students in active learning using map lessons! The following TEN map lessons are included with this product: The World; Roman Empires; The Rise and Spread of Islam; The Maya, Aztec, and Inca Empires; Medieval Japan; Medieval China; Medieval Africa; Medieval Europe; The Reformation; and Renaissance Italy.
These 8 pre-numbered maps and 16 quizzes will save you hours upon hours of creation and make preparation for assessing students on geographic locations effortless. Each has been designed with a numbered map, reproducible answer sheet and teacher’s answer key.
Geography Activities with Answer Key Holt Rinehart & Winston,1999-09-01 Spectrum Geography, Grade 6 ,2015-01-05 Winding through purple mountains majesties and amber waves of grain, the standards-based Spectrum Geography: World for grade 6 guides your child’s understanding of ecosystems, world
older students and keep a record of work with the Test Book and Answer Key. There are 42 tests, one for each chapter of The Story of the World Vol. 3 Text – perfect for evaluating comprehension and retention!-- World History Map Activities Marvin Scott,1997-01-01 Examine the role of geography in global history! Stimulates visual
The Story of the World. The Tests package contains an answer key for all tests. These easy-to-use tests and answer keys, successfully used by hundreds of parents and teachers, provide an objective method for measuring retention of key facts, figures, and events from history. A combination of sequencing, matching, short-answer, and essay-style ...
