Learn about the Age of Exploration and the early explorers of North America in this unit that includes a 14-page nonfiction text, reading questions, a lapbook or interactive notebook pieces, and a unit test. This complex text will provide your students with information about the Age of Exploration, reasons for exploration, Silk Road, Northwest Passage, advances in technology (maps, astrolabe, magnetic compass, caravel, gunpowder), challenges explorers faced, and the Columbian Exchange. Your stud