What Are Explorers?

GeoHistory
GeoLiteracy
GeoSTEM
Lesson Plan Content
Description: 
In this lesson, students will gain a better understanding of explorers traveling to new places in the world through identifying land and water on maps, listening to stories about actual explorers, and describing found objects using relative location terms.
Author: 
Marjorie Wieweck
Grade Range: 
K
Duration: 
1-2 class periods
Lesson Materials
Teacher Instructions: 
application/pdf iconTeacher Instructions
Student Materials: 
application/pdf iconStudent Worksheets
application/pdf iconWere We First? map (color)
application/pdf iconWere We First? map
Standards
National Geography Standards: 
1: How to use maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process, and report information
3: How to analyze the spatial organization of people places, and environments on Earth's surface