This week we began our first unit in
Galloping the Globe, by
Loree' Pettit and Dari Mullins.We used the resources in the text to plan out a unit that included History, geography and literature. Switching between the history of exploration and an introduction to maps and reading maps, everyone learnt a lot and remained interested right until the end of the unit.
We also found the
Early explorers activity book which kept Miss K busy with coloring, word searches and mazes and plenty of interesting facts about each explorer. Here are some of our notebooking pages for this unit.
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| Early Exploration Time line |
Our explorer time line pieces came from
Homeschool Share. Inside each mini book Miss K added their country of origin and where they explored/what they discovered.
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| Making a map of your room and The map of the world |
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| A timeline showing images of early maps of the world. We were all amazed at how much had been 'guessed at' |
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| The Globe from teacher file box |
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| Learning about map directions, the compass and compass rose |
