Significant Explorers - Introduction Lesson!

In this engaging and purposeful lesson, children develop an introductory understanding of what explorers are and how exploring has changed over time. In particular, they:
-Define what an explorer is and consider the skills explorers need;
-Identify some important explorations from the past;
-Understand the factors that have helped to develop exploration.

The learning is guided by a clear and colourful PowerPoint presentation, which guides students through the following step-by-step journey:
-Knowledge recall of basic history skills and key terms;
-Defining what explorers are and considering the key skills and qualities that they need;
-Understanding base information about how the earliest humans explored to become natives of different areas around the world;
-Considering how exploration was limited before the 1400s;
-Considering the technological and societal changes that made wider exploration possible;
-Imagining that they were an explorer from this time, and contemplating the different expeditions that they would like to undertake;
-Self-reflecting on the extent to which they feel they have met the learning objective.

Included is the comprehensive PowerPoint presentation (17 slides), which contains all of the information needed to teach the lesson. Also included is the worksheet for the development task - in both Word and PDF format.

In the past, I have used this lesson with children in lower KS2 (years 3 and 4) - the key learning is aligned with curriculum expectations for history. All images are licensed for commercial use.