Tag: Age of Exploration
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How do ocean currents move and how does this affect navigation?
One of the weird random facts I learned about Benjamin Franklin is that he learned how the ocean currents move and charted the Atlantic Current. If Benjamin Franklin is ever the subject on Jeopardy, I’m set. Since that’s not likely to happen, I set the kids to an ocean currents experiment and had lots of…
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Age of Exploration Game
Last year as we studied Texas history, we covered the Age of Exploration again, but this time it was explorers you only tend to cover for Texas history. I wanted a fun way to review all we’d learned before and in my explorations, I found a great Age of Exploration printable game. (This post contains…
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Age of Exploration Unit
Hey, this is Future Ticia of 2019. I originally wrote this post in 2016, a few years after the last time we studied the Age of Exploration and went through our Age of Exploration Unit for Elementary School (or middle school, since this was designed for my 5th-grade kids). Now my kids are in high…
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Did Ponce de Leon find the Fountain of Youth?
How many of you saw the most recent Pirates of the Caribbean film with the Fountain of Youth? I did and found the lore included in it very interesting and amusing. Not to mention that I loved the ending with the Spaniards coming in and destroying it declaring, “Only God can grant eternity.” AWESOME! Well, this…
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Here’s to accidental discoveries, and the discovery of Australia
Have you ever thought about the number of things we take for granted that are discovered by accident? Christopher Columbus discovered an entire continent by accident. Penicillin was discovered by accident. Much like these other incidents, Australia was discovered by accident when looking for something else. supplies for our discovery of Australia maps you can…