Description: In this creative writing and history activity, students design their own Age of Exploration “sailor menu,” choosing historically accurate foods like hardtack and salt beef plus setting prices and descriptions. An alliteration helper encourages them to craft playful, descriptive entree names (like “Rancid Rats” or “Salty Sawdust Stew”) while they customize fonts, colors, and cover icons. When finished, they can print a full menu with a bold cover and optional customer reviews page that showcase both their content knowledge and language skills.

Description: Students design their own parchment-style explorer maps by painting or filling regions, placing period-style stamps (galleons, whales, compass roses, wind cherubs, and more), and adding Latin labels inside ornate gold cartouches. They can switch between classic map backgrounds, pan/zoom the stage, adjust colors and sizes, and refine work with select, undo/redo, and erase tools before exporting a finished PNG. The activity blends geography and history with creative design, encouraging learners to think like early cartographers while building visually rich maps.

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

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

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 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 activity requires students to drag and drop explorer names into their correct country boxes. For example, Christopher Columbus would get dropped into the "Spain" box. It gives immediate feedback.

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

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 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.