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Teacher Instructions

Submitted by teachergwa on August 11, 2009 - 12:51am

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This lesson was developed as part of a project begun in Centennial School District to teach Internet literacy skills to fifth grade students.

Evaluation

Submitted by teachergwa on August 10, 2009 - 7:04pm

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You will be evaluated according to the rubric below. Use this as a guide while you are working to be sure you are meeting all the criteria.

Phase 3: Developing Your Presentation

Submitted by teachergwa on August 10, 2009 - 6:49pm

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The last step is to create a presentation for a committee of state legislators to persuade them that your plan for a new holiday should be adopted. The role of the committee will be played by a group of teachers and students from our class.

Phase 2: Choosing an Explorer

Submitted by teachergwa on August 10, 2009 - 6:17pm

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The next step is to identify one explorer who is worthy of being honored with a new holiday and to learn about that person so you can design an appropriate celebration.

Phase 1: World Holidays

Submitted by teachergwa on August 10, 2009 - 6:13pm

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The first step is to learn as much as you can about how we honor people with holidays. Note: your team will have a folder to organize your materials. Keep everything you do! You will be turning this folder in at the end of the project.

1. Select one of the holidays from the list below. Be sure each person in your team selects a different holiday.

Process

Submitted by teachergwa on August 10, 2009 - 6:03pm

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This WebQuest has three phases:

World Holidays

The first step is to learn as much as you can about how we honor people with holidays.
Note: your team will have a folder to organize your materials. Keep everything you do!
You will be turning this folder in at the end of the project.

Choosing an Explorer

The next step is to identify one explorer who is worthy of being honored with a new holiday

Treasure Hunts

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Click on the links below to begin your Internet exploration about these famous people. Choose an explorer and then use the links on the next page to find the answers to the three questions you'll find there. Be careful to check your facts!


	Hunt for Facts About Vasco Nunez de Balboa
	Hunt for Facts about John Cabot
	Hunt for Facts about Jacques Cartier
	Hunt for Facts about Samuel de Champlain
	Hunt for Facts about Christopher Columbus
	Hunt for Facts about Vasco da Gama
	Hunt for Facts about Juan Ponce de Leon
	Hunt for Facts about Sir Francis Drake
	Hunt for Facts about Henry Hudson
	Hunt for Facts about Ferdinand Magellan
	Hunt for Facts about Francisco Pizarro
	Hunt for Facts about Amerigo Vespucci

Click here for an explanation of the meaning of the color-coded dots in the list above.

Copyright Notice

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All text and map content included on this site is the property and sole responsibility of the authors (http://www.allaboutexplorers.com/authors.html) and was not derived from any outside sources. This content is protected by U.S. Copyright laws. Permission is hereby granted for teachers to duplicate content at this site for classroom use only. Any other use, including the reproduction, modification, or republication, of the content on this site is strictly prohibited.

About This Site

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All About Explorers was developed by a group of teachers as a means of teaching students about the Internet. Although the Internet can be a tremendous resource for gathering information about a topic, we found that students often did not have the skills to discern useful information from worthless data.

So we set out to develop a series of lessons for elementary age students in which we would demonstrate that just because it is out there for the searching does not mean it is worthwhile.

All About the Authors of AllAboutExplorers.com

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