This week my students are studying the events surrounding the Age of Exploration. A project that my students and I developed focused on student choice and the incorporation of technology to expand their learning and knowledge of the impacts of exploration. This project called for each student to choose an explorer from the list we created as a class, and go deeper into the impact of each explorer. Students will be doing more of the "heavy lifting" and will have full autonomy on the deliverables for the final submission of the project.
Students will create a one-page take away using Piktochart or similar, or a travel brochure depicting the location(s) their explorer journeyed to. Students will use this information to further dive into the impacts/ramifications their explorer had on the indigenous peoples they came in contact with and the impacts the explorer's pursuit of new lands had on the development of globalization.
