Renaissance: Tudor Explorers Unit Study

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Week 1 – Introduction and Resources

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Week 2 – Making a Paper Mache Map

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Week 3 – The Urge to Explore

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Week 4 – Preparing for the Journey

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Week 5 – Ships and Sea Monsters

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Week 6 – Navigation part 1 – How to make a Chip Log to calculate Speed

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Week 7 – Navigation part 2 – Making and Using a Compass to navigate the seas

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Week 8 – Navigation Part 3 – Making and using a Quadrant to navigate the seas

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Week 9 – Conducting a Blanket Trade

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Week 10 – Explorer Study – Christopher Columbus 

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Project Based Learning: Pirates

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7 comments

  1. This is fantastic!!!! Just came across your blog earlier today on pintrest…I. can. not. stop. reading! how fun! Thank you so much for sharing with us so we can first off admire, and 2nd of all, share some awesome creativity learning from your adventures!

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