Reasons for Exploration

This module is meant to be completed with Colorado Department of Education Instructional Unit Sample for the 5th grade Social Studies unit, "The Melting Pot?", learning experience #3. http://www.cde.state.co.us/standardsandinstruction/ss5-themeltingpot-pdf

Through read aloud books, whole and small group discussion, close reading, and individual research on explorers, students will discover the 7 reasons for exploration and research various explorers to determine these reasons. Students will synthesize this information into an essay describing some of these reasons.