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🗺️ 5th Grade · Social StudiesD2.His.14.3-5Unit 2: Age of Exploration

Why explore?

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🎯 Objective: Students explain reasons for exploration: trade, wealth, new routes.

Lesson outline

  1. Spice trade map.
  2. Discuss.
  3. Write.
  4. Exit: one reason.

Lesson 1 of 3 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

D2.His.14.3-5

C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards (NCSS) — typical US grade-level themes

🏁 Unit goals

  • Explain why Europeans explored
  • Describe effects of exploration on Native peoples

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

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More lessons in “Age of Exploration”

  1. Why explore?
  2. Explorers and their routes
  3. The Columbian Exchange

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