Explorers & the Age of Exploration EDITABLE Interactive Notebook & Test
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Looking for a way to increase students' interest in United States geography, Native Americans, and American history through Westward Expansion? These interactive notebooks hook students on history - and support their reading skills! These units include interactive activities, maps, vocabulary, graphPrice $42.49Original Price $53.16Save $10.67
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Support upper elementary students’ reading skills with this Explorers and the Age of Exploration Interactive Notebook. This editable unit is a complete study of exploration of North America. It includes interactive activities, maps, vocabulary, graphic organizers, and assessment.
Students will explore trade routes, including the Silk Road, as well as improvements in navigation technology, Columbian Exchange, European explorers, New France, and New Netherlands. Students also examine the conquest of the Aztec and Inca Empires.
This interactive notebook includes activities, maps, and organizers on the following topics:
- Timeline
- Summarizing a Text (Use with the text of your choice.)
- Primary vs. Secondary Sources (Use with the text of your choice.)
- Explore! Activity
- Silk Road
- Searching for Other Trade Routes
- Vocabulary
- Navigation Technology & Ships
- Explorers: da Gama, Dias, Columbus
- Columbian Exchange
- Aztec Empire
- Inca Empire
- Explorers: de Leon, de Soto, Coronado, Cabeza de Vaca
- Explorers: Cabot, da Verrazzano, Cartier, Hudson
- Maps
- New France & the Great Lakes
- New Netherland
- Flashcards
- Chapter Test
Students often struggle to determine what information is important in a nonfiction text. These organizers have topics and guiding questions on them, which helps students identify the main ideas and key details in their text. This interactive notebook could either be used in social studies or when teaching nonfiction reading skills in language arts.
There are 40 pages of activities, plus a complete answer key. Also, a chapter test are included. File includes both a PDF version and an editable PowerPoint version of the unit.
All text in the unit is editable, although the organizers and clipart are not. Teachers can edit the topics and questions so they better fit their informational texts.
Worried about prep? The included organizers are designed to save prep time. They are easy-to cut shapes and the pages are arranged so there is as little cutting as possible.
Teachers Love It!
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “This resource is a great way to engage students in learning about American history. It works great for interactive notebooks or stand alone worksheets.” – J Lang
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Interesting and helpful resource on the explorers. Helped us keep them straight and focus on the main points for each. Thanks!” – Margaret D.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐“My students loved this resource! It was easy to use and I love how the writer organized the work so that it is easy for me as a teacher to implement in the classroom. It is 100% aligned with my curriculum, which I absolutely love. I also think that the students learned a lot more by using this product. It can be challenging making Social Studies fun and engaging for students, but this resource absolutely helps you to do that.” – Angela H.
*Please note, this unit includes the same activities as my Explorers & the Age of Exploration Digital Notebook, but these graphic organizers are designed to be copied, cut, and pasted. Teachers may want to use both versions with students to meet different needs.
*This resource is meant to be used with a textbook or as teacher-led notes. If teachers need informational texts for their students, my Age of Exploration Flipbook covers the same material, plus information on early colonies in the Americas. A PDF correlating the text lessons and the notebook activities is included.
This unit covers the Florida standards for 5th grade social studies, which is U.S. Geography and U.S. History through Westward Expansion. This unit focuses on the standards referencing exploration.
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Permission to use with a single classroom only (one teacher).
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