Tag: Mystery of History 3

  • Bartolomeu Dias proves there are no sea monsters near Africa

    Bartolomeu Dias proves there are no sea monsters near Africa

    Can you imagine what it was like during the Age of Exploration?  Sailing was a risky business, but traveling at all was a risky business.  Bartolomue Dias knew both of these things firsthand and experienced them.  But he wasn’t afraid, and made history as the first European to sail around Africa. Why look for a…

  • Prince Henry the Navigator

    Prince Henry the Navigator

    My memory of Prince Henry the Navigator dates back to my freshman in high school history class, and my teacher basically saying ‘Prince Henry the Navigator invented modern navigation.’  Of course since then historians, and archeologists have found differing evidence, but the idea is still there. Who is Prince Henry the Navigator? I’m glad you…

  • 10 Steps from Plato to Sir Francis Drake

    10 Steps from Plato to Sir Francis Drake

    Easy may not be the right word.  Somewhat convoluted as I draw connections that may not be the most intuitive, but the connections are there, and they are interesting to me.  So sit down as Teacher Ticia gives you a fun homeschool history lesson that is only somewhat exaggerated. It’s a bit more crazy than…

  • How do ocean currents move and how does this affect navigation?

    How do ocean currents move and how does this affect navigation?

    One of the weird random facts I learned about Benjamin Franklin is 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 fun…

  • How does the ocean temperature affect a ship’s movement

    How does the ocean temperature affect a ship’s movement

    Earlier this week I showed you how sailors navigated, and how they measured speed.  But, how does the ocean temperature affect a ship’s movement? This is a topic not truly explored during the Age of Exploration, but it affected how their ships moved and what routes were effective.  Besides, any homeschool science lesson that involves…