Social Studies
Unit 1 Exploration:
What does it mean to explore?
What motivated (caused) the explorer to explore? What were the consequences of his/her exploration?
How do we know exploration took place?
In this unit we will discuss what it means to explore and the different types of exploration.
The theme of this curriculum is exploration. Students will consider what it means to explore. It is important that they see themselves as explorers and recognize that all people have experiences in exploration. Being an explorer does not always mean discovering something new to everyone, but rather something new to you. This happens when you visit a place for the first time, read about something new to you, etc. In this way a person's knowledge and understanding of the world constantly grows.
Students will examine and describe different types of exploration (Places, People, and Ideas). These will include explorations of our physical world (e.g., historical explorations and modern-day explorations including the ocean and outer space) and people who have engaged in explorations of ideas and knowledge (e.g., imagining and inventing new ways to do things,
conducting research, reading information about a topic that is new to you).
Unit 1 Exploration:
What does it mean to explore?
What motivated (caused) the explorer to explore? What were the consequences of his/her exploration?
How do we know exploration took place?
In this unit we will discuss what it means to explore and the different types of exploration.
The theme of this curriculum is exploration. Students will consider what it means to explore. It is important that they see themselves as explorers and recognize that all people have experiences in exploration. Being an explorer does not always mean discovering something new to everyone, but rather something new to you. This happens when you visit a place for the first time, read about something new to you, etc. In this way a person's knowledge and understanding of the world constantly grows.
Students will examine and describe different types of exploration (Places, People, and Ideas). These will include explorations of our physical world (e.g., historical explorations and modern-day explorations including the ocean and outer space) and people who have engaged in explorations of ideas and knowledge (e.g., imagining and inventing new ways to do things,
conducting research, reading information about a topic that is new to you).