Description: This 30-slide power point presentation explains all about the Age of Exploration. It includes everything your students will need to understand including definitions, reasons, explorers, histories, obstacles, goals, destinations, accomplishments, and much more! This presentation can easily be used at the basis for a unit on exploration.

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text.

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and eight multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text.

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.

Description: This activity functions like an online mad lib. Students must add parts of speech to create a hilarious story.

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions.

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.

Description: This fun explorers activity requires students to construct a "Mt. Rushmore" of four explorers and to justify why they chose the explorers. The "heads" of ten different famous explorers or included and students simply cut them out to form the Mt. Rushmore.

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 578 Words; LEXILE: 1210

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. PASSAGE LENGTH: 578 Words; LEXILE: 1210

Description: This contextual vocabulary exercise requires students to insert the vocabulary words from the word bank that complete the paragraph.

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions.

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions.

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions.

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions.

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. PASSAGE LENGTH: 395 Words; LEXILE: 1110

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and four multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH = 270 words; LEXILE = 610

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and four multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH = 270 words; LEXILE = 610

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH = 906 words; LEXILE = 1010

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. PASSAGE LENGTH = 906 words; LEXILE = 1010

Description: Students play the role of a virtual history teacher and must grade responses to three questions about the life of Amelia Earhart. Each response is incomplete, and students must fill in the missing information in the "response" section. Students can use the Amelia Earhart biography for reference.

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 441 Words; LEXILE: 1110

Description: This is an online word search with the names of famous explorers. Choose with or without a timer.

Description: This "containers" exercise requires students to drag and drop the different explorer names to their sponsoring nation containers. It gives immediate feedback.

Description: This activity requires students to drag and drop different phrases into a box for explorer motivations and for explorer obstacles. It gives immediate feedback.

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. PASSAGE LENGTH = 534 Words; LEXILE = 910

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH = 534 Words; LEXILE = 910

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 490 Words; LEXILE: 1210

Description: This contextual vocabulary exercise requires students to insert the vocabulary words from the word bank that complete the paragraph.

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions.

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions.

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions.

Description: When Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark to explore the vast Louisiana Territory, he had visions that they’d find exotic creatures such as wholly mammoths and undiscovered landforms such as mountains made of salt. While Lewis and Clark discovered over three hundred species of animals and plants, and even sent a magpie and prairie dog as pets to Thomas Jefferson, they never found the kind of creatures that legends are made of (though they did find massive grizzly bears). What if Lewis and Clark actually did discover an unworldly plant, animal, and landform, but those pages were somehow lost from Lewis’ journal forever when their keelboat capsized? In the spaces provided below, use your imagination to name, draw, and describe these lost discoveries.

Description: This printable exercise requires students to compare Lewis and Clark to other "dynamic duos" in literature, movies, or even sports.

Description: Did you know that there are no known drawings of depictions of Sacagawea? All of the images you see of her today are simply guesses. This activity shows three different depictions of Sacagawea and challenges students to author their own "authentic" sketch of Sacagawea.

Description: This is a challenging game that traces the steps that both explorers attempted in their failed circumnavigations. Redeem your chosen explorer by successfully re-tracing his or her steps using your advanced world geography skills. Very challenging!

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and eight multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 170 Words; LEXILE: 810

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and eight multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. PASSAGE LENGTH: 170 Words; LEXILE: 810

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions.

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text.

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 214 Words; LEXILE: 1110

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. PASSAGE LENGTH: 214 Words; LEXILE: 1110

Description: This coloring page features six mythical creatures: Unicorn, Pegasus, Yeti, Big Foot, Lochness Monster, and the Kraken.

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. PASSAGE LENGTH: 332 Words; LEXILE: 1110

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 332 Words; LEXILE: 1110

Description: This activity requires students to drag and drop the names of different terms into the correct country box. For example, since Jamestown was an English colony, it would get dropped into the "England" box.

Description: This activities requires students to read short blurbs about three mythical kingdoms that explorers hoped to find: The Kingdom of Prester John, The Kingdom of Saguenay, and the Seven Cities of Cibola. Based on the descriptions, students should render imaginative drawings.

Description: This writing prompt requires students to determine whether or not Columbus should get his own holiday, and if not, what famous person should replace him and why?

Description: This activity explains common diseases that sailors contracted such as scurvy, yellow fever, cholera, typhoid, and others. It then requires students to play the role of a ship doctor and to diagnose sick sailors based on their symptoms.

Description: This activity requires students to identify the land explored by 11 different explorers including Columbus, de Leon, Coronado, Balboa, Cabot, Champlain, and more.

Description: This writing prompt explains that Ponce de Leon's search for the Fountain of Youth was made up by those who wished to embarrass him. It then requires students to write about an instance in which they may have experienced slander, or, when a character in literature or movies experienced it.

Description: Welcome to Halls of History! This game will test your visual knowledge of American history. There are seven sections to the game, five of which cover historical eras until the Civil War, and two of which cover famous people in American history. Click on each image in history to enlarge and inspect and then answer the question associated with it. When you are done with the game, you'll get a percentage score for each section.

Description: This resource includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. You can also print out detailed results. PASSAGE LENGTH: 590 Words; LEXILE: 1010

Description: This fun activity requires students to correct a passage about Marco Polo that has seven factual errors. Students first must discover the errors, then click on them and select the correct answer from the drop down menu.

Description: This fun activity requires students to read a Marco Polo passage and then, to sort 10 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction.

Description: This fun activity requires students to read a Marco Polo passage and then, to sort 10 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction.

Description: Students play the role of a virtual history teacher and must grade responses to three questions about Marco Polo. Each response is incomplete, and students must fill in the missing information in the "response" section. Students can use the Marco Polo biography for reference.

Description: This printable activity requires students to select sentences from a series of sentences that fit under the given topic sentence, and to construct a paragraph based on the logical order of the selected sentences.

Description: This bundle includes all of the printable activities related to Marco Polo on MrNussbaum.com

Description: This fun activity requires students to correct a passage about Christopher Columbus that has ten factual errors. Students first must discover the errors, then click on them and select the correct answer from the drop down menu.

Description: This fun activity requires students to read a Christopher Columbus passage and then, to sort 10 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction.

Description: This fun activity requires students to read a Christopher Columbus passage and then, to sort 10 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction.

Description: Students play the role of a virtual history teacher and must grade responses to three questions about Christopher Columbus. Each response is incomplete, and students must fill in the missing information in the "response" section. Students can use the Christopher Columbus biography for reference.

Description: This printable activity requires students to select sentences from a series of sentences that fit under the given topic sentence, and to construct a paragraph based on the logical order of the selected sentences.

Description: This writing prompt requires students to consider an argument that Christopher Columbus was overrated in history. It then asks students to write about something they consider overrated.

Description: This bundle includes all of the printable activities related to Christopher Columbus on MrNussbaum.com

Description: This activity requires students to write about a modern mystery that they think will be solved by humans in the future - in the same way that the cause of Scurvy was a mystery for hundreds of years.

Description: Below are three headings at the beginnings of paragraphs. Below the chart are the associated supporting detail sentences. Which sentences would appear under which heading? Use the numbers before the sentences so you don’t have to write the entire sentence. Order matters!

Description: This packet includes all eight printable activities related to Ferdinand Magellan on MrNussbaum.com

Description: This fun activity requires students to read a Ferdinand Magellan passage and then, to sort 10 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction.

Description: This fun activity requires students to read a Ferdinand Magellan passage and then, to sort 10 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction. It gives immediate feedback.

Description: Students play the role of a virtual history teacher and must grade responses to three questions about Ferdinand Magellan. Each response is incomplete, and students must fill in the missing information in the "response" section. Students can use the Ferdinand Magellan biography for reference.

Description: This fun activity requires students to read a Ferdinand Magellan passage and then, to sequence ten events of his life from earliest to latest

Description: This fun activity requires students to correct a passage about Ferdinand Magellan that has ten factual errors. Students first must discover the errors, then click on them and select the correct answer from the drop down menu.

Description: This fun and challenging game requires students to correctly order Age of Exploration events along the timeline. Very fun, but very challenging.

Description: Based on the Iroquoian explanation of the Kingdom of Saguenay to Jacques Cartier, students must describe and draw the greatest mythical place they have ever experienced in a book, movie, or video game! Very fun and engaging.

Description: This fun activity requires students to correct a passage about French explorers that has nine factual errors. Students first must discover the errors, then click on them and select the correct answer from the drop down menu.

Description: This fun activity requires students to read a Jacques Cartier passage and then, to sort 10 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction.

Description: This fun activity requires students to read a Jacques Cartier passage and then, to sort 10 statements into those that are facts and those that are fiction. It gives immediate feedback.

Description: Students play the role of a virtual history teacher and must grade responses to three questions about Jacques Cartier. Each response is incomplete, and students must fill in the missing information in the "response" section. Students can use the Jacques Cartier biography for reference.

Description: This activity requires students to compare and contrast Jacques Cartier and Samuel de Champlain. Students must evaluate ten statements to determine if each is associated with Cartier, Champlain, or both.

Description: This packet includes all eight printable activities related to Jacques Cartier on MrNussbaum.com

Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage on Captain James Cook and seven multiple choice questions. The answers are included in the PDF.

Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. The answers are included in the PDF.

Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. The answers are included in the PDF.

Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. The answers are included in the PDF.

Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. The answers are included in the PDF.

Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. The answers are included in the PDF.

Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. The answers are included in the PDF.

Description: This activity requires includes a reading passage and seven multiple choice questions. The answers are included in the PDF.

Description: This is a coloring page that features a beautiful United States postage stamp honoring Captain James Cook.

Description: This is a coloring page that features a Canadian postage stamp honoring Jacques Cartier and Samuel de Champlain

Description: This is a coloring page that features a United States Postage Stamp honoring the 200th Anniversary of the Lewis and Clark adventure.

Description: This is a coloring page that features a Canadian postage stamp that honors Jacques Cartier.

Description: This is a coloring page that features a United States postage stamp honoring Sacagawea.

Description: This resource includes numerous bundled digital learning, researching, communicating, reviewing, and gaming activities on Christopher Columbus in a single resource. Students can conduct research , fill out graphic organizers and Venn diagrams, write e-books with pictures, conduct interviews, determine fact or opinion, play games, and much, much more! If you're teaching about Jacques Cartier , you're sure to find any number of unique opportunities for your students here.

Description: This resource includes numerous bundled digital learning, researching, communicating, reviewing, and gaming activities on Jacques Cartier in a single resource. Students can conduct research , fill out graphic organizers and Venn diagrams, write e-books with pictures, conduct interviews, determine fact or opinion, play games, and much, much more! If you're teaching about Jacques Cartier , you're sure to find any number of unique opportunities for your students here.

Description: This resource includes numerous bundled digital learning, researching, communicating, reviewing, and gaming activities on Balboa in a single resource. Students can conduct research , fill out graphic organizers and Venn diagrams, write e-books with pictures, conduct interviews, determine fact or opinion, play games, and much, much more! If you're teaching about Balboa , you're sure to find any number of unique opportunities for your students here.

Description: This resource includes numerous bundled digital learning, researching, communicating, reviewing, and gaming activities on John Cabot in a single resource. Students can conduct research , fill out graphic organizers and Venn diagrams, write e-books with pictures, conduct interviews, determine fact or opinion, play games, and much, much more! If you're teaching about John Cabot, you're sure to find any number of unique opportunities for your students here.

Description: This interactive activity allows students to use the interactive explorers exhibit to find the answers to the scavenger hunt questions.

Description: This interactive activity allows students to use the interactive explorers exhibit to determine if statements about explorers and their destinations are fact or fiction.

Description: This interactive scavenger hunt allows students to use the Legends, myths, and Goals of the Age of Exploration exhibit to hunt for the answers. It gives immediate feedback.