Exploration
Let’s explore our world.
Explorations
Central idea: Exploration leads to discovery and develops new
understandings.
Key concepts: Form, Perspective, Causation
Related concepts: Consequences, Discovery, Geography
Lines of inquiry
• Reasons for exploration (historical and personal)
• Feelings and attitudes associated with exploration
• learning through exploration
• Methods of navigation
Exploration:
It is the activity of searching
and finding out about things or places.
Why do people
explore?
1. Trade:
To trade is to willingly give things or services and
get other things or services in return.
The things that are given from one
person to the other are called goods.
2. Treasures.
Explorers search for
gold, silver, jewelry
and antiques so they
can get richer.
3. Land:
Explorers often want to
find a land for
themselves to call a
country.
They want a fertile
land to grow their food,
or a land that is full of
natural resources like
minerals and fuel.
4. Science and knowledge
explorers might travel to find a
cure of a disease. Or learn about
new things that are happening in
another place, and to understand
how this world works.
5. Adventure, fame and challenge:
many explorers want an adventure to test their limits and show
what they can do, they also want their names to be written in
history for doing something no one else has done.
These types of explorers include the
explorers who raced to be the first to
land on the Moon, Neil Armstrong
Now, can you
tell me What
is the impact of
exploring on
us?
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Exploration connectected us.
People were very isolated, seas, oceans, and vast
But exploration changed how the map of
lands kept us apart.
world looked, because strong countries
dominated weaker and
But when exploration smaller
travels lands
started .
to happen,
our world became one.
European countries (strong countries) brought many lands
(weak lands and countries) under their control. In the NEW
WORLD,
many native people resisted and wanted to remain free, so
wars happened and a lot of people died.
Do you know what is the old
world?
Europe, Asia, Can you Can you
and Africa tell me how tell me how
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back then. So
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named the Old World?
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AFRICA
SOUTH AMERICA
AUSTRALIA
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Arctic Ocean
Indian Ocean
Pacific Ocean
Southern ocean
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Do you know which ocean is the
biggest and which is the
smallest?
Navigation
.
What is navigation?
TheNavigation is maneuvering
word navigation comes from the Latin
safely
navis, whichand efficiently
means from one
boat, and agire,
which means
point to guide, so traditionally navigation
another.
referred to the ability to guide ships from one
place to another
What is navigation?
Sailors of the 16th century had
various kinds of instruments to
help them cross the oceans.
Which tools were used?
Explorers used a lot of different tools.
A compass to see which direction they
were traveling.
They could also work out a ship’s position
by measuring the angle of the Sun or
stars above the horizon. They did this a
disk called an astrolabe, or a simple stick
called a cross-staff
A compass is a tool for finding
direction. A simple compass is a
magnetic needle mounted on a
pivot, or short pin. The needle,
which can spin freely, always
points north.
Maps are used to remember how to go certain
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Who explored the old world?
In the Middle Ages, the Venetian Marco
Polo and the Moroccan Ibn Battutah
traveled east to China. The Chinese admiral
Sheng He sailed west to Africa in the 15th
century. By the 16th century, Portuguese
and Dutch ships were trading in southeast
Asia
Who is Ibn Battutah?
BATTUTA (1304-1368)
“Almost two centuries before Columbus, a young
Moroccan named Ibn Battuta set off for Mecca;
he returned home three decades later as one of
history’s great travelers…”
Who much is a decade?
Who is Marco Polo?
•1254-1324
•he was the most famous
Westerner to travel the Silk Road.
•His journey through Asia lasted 24
years
Made by
Raniya Fahad