Perfect for upper elementary social studies instruction, this resource supports reading, writing, and critical-thinking skills through rich nonfiction content and standards-aligned tasks. Available in Google Slides™, PowerPoint™, and PDF formats for flexible, print-and-digital teaching!

Explorer Unit 1:

★ Key Exploration Words

★ Exploring the Unknown

★ Reasons for Exploration Graphic Organizer

★ Leif Erikson

★ Christopher Columbus

★ Amerigo Vespucci

★ John Cabot

Explorer Unit 2:

★ Ferdinand Magellan

★ Hernando DeSoto

★ Henry Hudson

★ Robert LaSalle

What is included?

✓ Teacher Instructions

✓ Informational Text

✓ Questions Using Reading Strategies (Before/During/After, Visualizing, Determining Importance, Inference, Synthesizing)

✓ Foldable Project CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION

✓ Mapping Routes

✓ Study Guides (2)

✓ Assessments (2)

✓ Craft of Columbus’s ship

✓ TIMELINE PROJECT

✓ Informational Text Mini-Booklets

 

FILES:

EXPLORERS UNIT TEACHER PDF: Plans, study guides, crafts, printables, answer keys, and links for GOOGLE.

EXPLORERS UNIT TEXT AND ACTIVITIES: For students, choose between Google Slides AND PowerPoint with everything from the PDF except the study guides, craft, and answer keys.

EXPLORERS UNIT SELF-CHECK REVIEW: Google Slides AND a PowerPoint Self-check review for both units.

QUIZZES: There are quizzes at the end of each unit in EXPLORERS TEXT AND ACTIVITIES OR there is a link to GOOGLE FORMS for automatic grading.

(Be careful not to put them on a public website. For copyright purposes, websites need to be password-protected)

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