What will your students choose to include in their explorer's treasure chest? Youngsters research an early European explorer and gather items to reflect their research, such as a detailed map of the explorer's voyages, portrait, flag, and report.

Concepts

early explorers, european exploration, european explorers, explorers, the age of exploration

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Additional Tags

social studies

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Instructional Ideas

• Consider designing a more detailed grading rubric or constructing samples of project items so pupils have a better understanding of the expectations
• Host an Explorer Day in your class and have each learner role play an explorer. Then, as part of a gallery walk, class members can display and discuss the items they created for their treasure chest

Classroom Considerations

• The project guidelines make several references to the author's specific class and name, which cannot be edited as a PDF document

Pros

• Creative and engaging project
• Includes treasure chest checklist and grade sheet

Cons

• None

Common Core

W.5.2.a W.5.7 W.5.8 WHST.6-8.2.a WHST.6-8.7 WHST.6-8.8