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Explorers
Choose one activity to complete.
1. Compare and Contrast 3 different explorers using a Venn diagram.
2. Pretend you are a sailor on Magellan’s voyage around the world. Write 3 different journal entries from 3 different days describing the conditions and your activities.
3. Research ships of Columbus’s time and ships of today. Compare ships of the early explorers to those of today using diagrams and a written describing.
4. Make a paper mache globe that shows the explorations of at least 4 explorers.
5. Construct a Viking ship. Be sure to include several items on your ship that the Vikings would have used on their voyage or taken with them.
6. Construct a compass and an astrolabe. Write a training brochure from Sir ________’s Navigation school explaining its purpose and how it was used.
7. Research the rumors about the Seven Cities of Gold. Based on these rumors, draw what the cities of gold would have looked like and write a song or a rap about them.
8. Compare and Contrast the fall of the Incas and the fall of the Aztecs. Use a Venn diagram to help you write your paper.
9. Draw a map depicting the journeys of several explorers who searched for a Northwest passage.
Name ___________________________________________
I have chosen to complete activitiy # _______. This activity must be completed by ____Oct. 21_________.