Exploration

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Exploration
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Requirements
1. Explorers Notebook
2. Explorer Profile
3. Bibliography
4. Audience before the King and his court
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1. Explorers Notebook contents

• Letter to the King requesting itemized list for
  funding
• Want Ad to attract crew members
• Map tracing voyage(s)
• Diary includes information about the crew,
  ship(s), problems, weather, etc
• Manifest information regarding items such as
  plants, animals, minerals, geography, and human
  interactions
• Letter to the King your conclusions about the
  success or failure of the expedition and most
  important to continue or abandon similar
  explorations in the future

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Explorer Profile

• Life-size explorer member of group drawn on
  butcher paper (think posed)
• Dressed and colored for accuracy (think outside
  the box)
• Five facts - you believe to be most important
  about the individual or accomplishments
• Report Card- Justification of Rating, Overall
  rating, and specific rating on 5 categories

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Justification of Rating 2-3 sentence explanation
with specific facts and examples
Specific Rating Grade 1-5 on each category 5
Clearly outstanding 4 Exceeds Expectations 3
Meets Expectations 2 Below Expectations 1
Unsatisfactory
Overall rating Add all Specific Ratings,
Multiply by 3, Add 25
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Catagories

• Leadership skills
• Organization and planning
• Navigational skills
• Perseverance
• Community relations
• Ethical conduct

• Intelligence
• Personal qualities
• Fulfillment of expectations
• Decision-making skills
• Professionalism
• Contribution to history

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Audience with the King and his court

• Present
• Components of Explorers Notebook
• Life-size explorer
• Format
• Electronic or paper (think realism)

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Explorers

• Bartholomeu Diaz
• Vasco Da Gama
• Christopher Columbus
• Pedro Alvares Cabral
• Amerigo Vespucci
• Ferdnand Magellan
• Vaco Nunez de Balboa

• Hernando Cortes
• Francisco Pizarro
• Francisco Vasquez do Coronado
• Jacques Cartier
• Samuel de Champlain
• Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet
• Renee Robert Sieur de la Salle
• Henry Hudson