Description: This awesome module explains everything about the Age of Exploration from a single module. It's the ultimate in click and learn!

Description: Explore the journeys that changed world history with our Voyages of Exploration Interactive Map! Follow the routes of 17 famous explorers, including Christopher Columbus, Marco Polo, Ferdinand Magellan, Vasco da Gama, Henry Hudson, and Samuel de Champlain. Click on important stops along each journey to discover what happened there and learn about the historical significance of each expedition. Featuring interactive maps, explorer portraits, detailed historical descriptions, printable voyage maps, and scavenger hunts, this engaging activity brings the Age of Exploration to life for students in grades 5–7!

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 Silk Road interactive map allows students to explore the ancient caravan route by clicking on the important points. It also includes an interactive scavenger hunt built into the map.

Description: This interactive map details the important points along the 1492 voyage of Christopher Columbus to the New World. Students can simply click on the points of the map to learn more. There is also a built-in interactive scavenger hunt.

Description: This interactive map of the United States tells the story and history of the ten largest cities named for Christopher Columbus. It includes an interactive scavenger hunt.

Description: This interactive map of the Magellan circumnavigation allows students to click on important points and landmarks of the journey to learn about each. It also includes an interactive scavenger hunt.

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 magnificent exhibit features an interactive tour of the Lewis and Clark journey.

Description: This activity requires students to use the interactive Lewis and Clark tour to answer the scavenger hunt questions. It gives immediate feedback.

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 section contains illustrated maps showing the route maps of Columbus, da Gama, Prince Henry, Ponce de Leon, Samuel de Champlain, Magellan, and Sir Francis Drake