Age of Exploration
Rationale
Learning about how people voyaged into the unknown during the Age of Exploration encourages us to explore the future with enthusiasm and wonder.
Big Question
What happened during the Age of Exploration?
Guiding Question/s
- How can we inspire others to learn more about the journey of an explorer during the Age of Exploration?
- How can we persuade others to learn more about the journey of an explorer during the Age of Exploration?
Essential Questions
- What was the Age of Exploration?
- How did explorers navigate the unknown?
- What was it like aboard a ship during the Age of Exploration?
- Who was Jeanne Baret and what was her exploration journey?
- What was early life like for Christopher Columbus, James Cook, Vasco de Gama, or Ferdinand Magellan?
- What happened on the exploration journeys of Christopher Columbus, James Cook, Vasco de Gama, or Ferdinand Magellan?
Future Action
Students will have a greater understanding of how the journey of the explorers have shaped world history and global connections.Students will be inspired to explore, understand how the world fits together and how they fit within it.
Immersion Phase
Immersion
Your students will participate in immersion experience/s and record their ideas and questions.
Your students will participate in immersion experience/s and record their ideas and questions.
Launch Phase
Questions
Your students will develop questions to add to the classroom Wonder Wall.
Your students will develop questions to add to the classroom Wonder Wall.
Research Phase
Research
Your students will conduct and record research and reflect on their effort at the end of each research session.
Your students will conduct and record research and reflect on their effort at the end of each research session.
Synthesis Phase
Findings
Your students will share and summarise their research findings and present what they have learnt with the rest of the class.
Your students will share and summarise their research findings and present what they have learnt with the rest of the class.
Assessment
You will conduct a conference with each student to assess their understanding of the content they have learnt during their research.
You will conduct a conference with each student to assess their understanding of the content they have learnt during their research.
Collaboration Phase
Product Plan
Your students will select product/s to create in response to the guiding question of this investigation.
Your students will select product/s to create in response to the guiding question of this investigation.
Product Creation
Your students will work in their Investigation Group to create their product/s and reflect on their role during this session.
Your students will work in their Investigation Group to create their product/s and reflect on their role during this session.
Exhibition Phase
Exhibition Preparation
Your students will prepare their product/s for the exhibition.
Your students will prepare their product/s for the exhibition.
Exhibition
Your students will share their product/s at the exhibition.
Your students will share their product/s at the exhibition.
Evaluation Phase
Feedback
Your students will analyse feedback they received from the attendees of the exhibition, conduct self-assessment using rubrics, and reflect on social skills.
Your students will analyse feedback they received from the attendees of the exhibition, conduct self-assessment using rubrics, and reflect on social skills.
Future Action
Your students will reflect on what they have learnt during this investigation, consider the Habits they have practised, and revisit questions on the Wonder Wall.
Your students will reflect on what they have learnt during this investigation, consider the Habits they have practised, and revisit questions on the Wonder Wall.