Teaching Famous Explorers During the Age of Exploration?

You’ve come to the right place! We’ve put together an excellent resource to help you blend reading comprehension and Social Studies into the same lesson! It’s always good to take content across the curriculum, and you can do just that with this early explorer graphic organizer pack.

Famous Explorers include

• Christopher Columbus

• Hernando De Soto

• Vasco Nunez de Balboa

• Rene-Robert Cavalier (Sieur de la Salle)

• Francisco Vasquez de Coronado

• Cabeza de Vaca

• John Cabot

• Henry Hudson

• Jacques Cartier

• Juan Ponce de Leon

The Age of Discovery – Use Kid-Friendly Resources!

These Famous Explorers Flip Book Templates are the perfect way to get kids learning about our world, history, and the people who explored it. They are an excellent way for students to record their knowledge about these explorers and their accomplishments.

In this set of miniature, single-sheet flip book templates, you’ll find everything you need to learn about the famous explorers of the Golden Age of Exploration. You can use these flip books to record the names and lifespan dates of all the famous explorers and their significant accomplishments and achievements.

Easy to Modify for 3rd-Grade Social Studies Students

These resources are perfect for teaching your third and fourth-grade world explorer content standards. These flipbooks are fully editable and can be modified easily. In addition to independent student work time, use this worksheet as an activity for:

• Guided reading groups 
• Formative Assessment
• Lesson wrap-up
• Fast finishers 
• Homework assignment

To challenge students needing acceleration, have them extend their learning about the different explorers into an informational research paper or project using our Informational Text Planning Templates.

Easily Download & Print

Use the dropdown icon on the Download button to choose between the Color PDF or Blackline PDF.

Additionally, you could project the worksheet onto a screen and work through the passage and questions as a whole-group reading comprehension lesson.

This resource was created by Katy Blevins, a Georgia teacher and Teach Starter Collaborator.