Day 3
Step 1: Make sure you have shared with the teacher your whiteboard page.
Step 2: Click here to see where your group of explorers will be meeting. Head to that spot quietly and bring your computer with you. In each group 2 or 3 students will represent each explorer.
Step 3: Voting
Step 4: The banner
Step 2: Click here to see where your group of explorers will be meeting. Head to that spot quietly and bring your computer with you. In each group 2 or 3 students will represent each explorer.
- This is your chance to share your accomplishments! Brag about yourself! Why are you the best? What are the top achievements? Each group will have 5 minutes to share what they have learned. Give some background information, the reason for the exploration, where you went and most importantly, why are you important?!
- While others are presenting be thinking about which explorer is most important to you. IT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE YOUR EXPLORER! Someone could convince you they are more important. Why do you think this explorer made the biggest achievements and is the most important?
Step 3: Voting
- After everybody in each group has finished presenting the class will come back together. Now that you have all had the chance to hear about the other explorers, think to yourself about which explorer you think would be the best as "Historic Hero." What does it mean to be a historic hero? Do any of these explorers have an impact on us today? How?
- Students will have the opportunity to share what they have found by raising their hand. The teacher will start with one explorer than work through the rest. Keep your identity!
- We will go through each explorer and list three of their major achievements on the smartboard.
- Each student will get a clicker to anonymously vote (Remember: it's okay to not vote for your explorer!)
- The teacher will announce the winner.
- Why did he win? What was so important about his exploration? What were some of his achievements and successes? Students will openly discuss what they learned, by raising their hand and sharing why they voted for the winner. Why were these achievements seen as more important than any of the other explorers?
- Are these explorations still important today? Why? Where do we live? Does this have any direct connection to any of these explorers? Who? (Exploration led to settlement)
Step 4: The banner
- Our Historical Hero will receive a banner that will hang in the classroom. He, along with the other explorers, will continued to be discussed as we explore how these explorations impacted the American Indians already living in the areas these explorers landed.