European Exploration of the New World Lesson Plans (PowerPoint, Lecture Notes +)

Your next social studies unit for seventh grade, eighth grade, ninth grade, tenth grade, eleventh grade on European explorers during the Age of Exploration is ready for you in this no-prep unit. The unit is all inclusive with a PowerPoint presentation, lecture notes that accompany the PowerPoint slide-by-slide, and graphic organizers for student use.

European Exploration of the New World covers the efforts of European nations to explore, conquer, and colonize the New World beginning in the late fifteenth century, extending to the early seventeenth century. The resource includes the explorations of Portugal, Spain, England, France, and The Netherlands.

This resource is ideal for the new teacher as well as the experienced. Homeschool students will also benefit from the resource.

Included:

• 86-slide animated PowerPoint Show (non-editable)
• Detailed Lecture Notes that follow PowerPoint slide by slide
• 6 Graphic Organizers (explorers and Social Pyramid of Latin America)

Topics Covered:

1. The resource begins with the Age of Expansion in Europe and continues with the explorations of the nation-states of Portugal, Spain, England, The Netherlands, and France.
2. Reasons for exploration
3. Areas explored
4. Rivalries among the nations
5. Impact on the native peoples
6. Explorers included: Prince Henry, Bartolomeu Dias, Vasco da Gama, Pedro Cabral, Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, Ferdinand Magellan, Vasco de Balboa, Ponce de Leon, Hernán Cortéz, Francisco Coronado, Hernando de Soto, Francisco Pizarro, John Cabot, Sir Martin Frobisher, Sir Francis Drake, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Sir Walter Raleigh, Henry Hudson, Verrazano, Jacques Cartier, Samuel de Champlain, Marquette, Joliett, and LaSalle.

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