"Exploring for Explorers" - Please label or provide a key for the routes on your maps!!! In-Class activity

Instructions:  after getting into your groups, you will receive a) a map of the school b) a blank world map c) instructions for your first station. You should complete all tasks before moving to the next station. Please record the answers on your blogs. 

Vasco da Gama  (band room)       1 – Go to 801-05

 Vasco da Gama was the first European to reach Asia by sea. From Europe, he sailed east.

·         To get to Asia, what continent did he have to go around?

·         What is the cape at the southern tip of Africa?

·         What is the “East Indies”?

·         Make a map showing the route from Portugal to India by way of the Cape of _____and the Indian Ocean.   

Amerigo Vespucci  (801-05)        2 – Go to 2411

·         It is said that Columbus discovered a new world, but what is Vespucci famous for doing?

·         Make a map showing the route from Portugal to Brazil by way of the Atlantic Ocean.

Columbus (2411)              3-  Go to 209

 Christopher Columbus sailed west.

·         He was not aware of two continents. What were they?

·         When he landed in the Americas, what continent did he think he had discovered?

·         What is the “West Indies”?

·         Make a map showing the route from Spain to the West Indies .

Balboa  (209)      4 – Go to Dance Room (band room side)

·         Every explorer sailed on the Atlantic Ocean. Balboa found what ocean?

·         What narrow strip of land separates the Atlantic and Pacific oceans?

·         Make a map of the world, showing the route from Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic) to Panama and the Pacific Ocean.

Cabot & Cartier (Dance Room)   5 – Go to 206

·         Cabot and Cartier sailed to Canada and tried to find the Northwest Passage. What is that?

·         Individually, what is each explorer famous for?

·         Make a map showing the route from England to Newfoundland by way of the Atlantic Ocean (Cabot)

·         Make a map showing the route from France to Montreal, Canada by way of the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of St. Lawrence, and St. Lawrence River.  (Cartier)

 

Magellan  (206)                6 – Go to Chorus Room

Magellan sailed west. He was the first person to sail around the world.

·         How did he get from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean?

·         What do you call the southern tip of South America?

·         Make a map showing the route from Portugal to the Philippines by way of the Atlantic Ocean, Strait of Magellan and Pacific Ocean.

Sir Francis Drake (Chorus Room)               7 -  Go to 802-05

Sir Francis Drake of England was the second man to sail around the world.

·         Did Drake use the Strait of Magellan?

·         Make a map showing the route from England to Asia by way of Atlantic Ocean, Strait of Magellan, Pacific Ocean, nearly the entire west coast of South America and North America, the Philippines, Indian Ocean, Cape of Good Hope, and the Atlantic Ocean.

Cortez and Pizarro  (802-05)    8 – Go to Band Room

Explorers did not need to go to Asia to find riches.

·         Cortez in Mexico and Pizarro in Peru found valuable minerals. What minerals?

·         This was a sad experience for the Aztecs and the Inca. Why?

·         Make a map showing the route from Cuba to Mexico City by way of the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico. (Cortez)

·         Make a map showing the route from Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic) to Peru by way of the Caribbean Sea, Panama, and the Pacific Ocean. (Pizarro)