Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Explorer Power Point Project



You will be working in teams of two to create a Power Point Presentation.  Not only will you be creating this Power Point, you will be giving the presentation to the class once it is complete.

1) Your Power Point will be 6 Slides long.
Slide 1  - Title slide with team members names
Slide 2 - 6 - Each slide will answer a different question about the explorer.

2) Before you begin, look at the explorers below.  Come up with a questions you have about each of the explorer you are researching.  This will be what drives your research.  Each slide will answer the question, as well as give a brief background (dates of birth and death, where they were from and discoveries). 

3) Each slide will also include a picture of your explorer and/or the area they discovered.

4) You MUST have a slide that discussing current life in the area they settled or discovered.

Here are the links below.  You may choose to do research beyond the provided sites.


Leif Erikson

Christopher Columbus

Amerigo Vespucci

Ferdinand Magellan

Hernan Cortes


Thursday, September 10, 2015



What do you think a blog is?  What is it used for?  We will be blogging this year on this website.  What positive message would you like to leave here to get the year started?