Significant Explorers - Christopher Columbus Lesson!

In this engaging and purposeful lesson, children develop an understanding of who Christopher Columbus was and the impact that he had on the world:
In particular, they:
-Learn who Christopher Columbus was and what he is known for;
-Explain how Columbus’ voyages have impacted the world today;
-Evaluate the actions and behaviour of Christopher Columbus.

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, key terms, and the meaning of exploration;
-Watching an engaging video (hyperlinked) to gain a base understanding of his life, voyages and achievements;
-Answer comprehension questions demonstrating what they have learnt from the video;
-Exploring quotations from Columbus’ own account of his voyages, to discover how he mistreated native people in the lands that he explored;
-Evaluating Columbus’ impact on the world;
-Self-reflecting on the extent to which they feel they have met the learning objective.

Included is the comprehensive PowerPoint presentation (18 slides), which contains all of the information needed to teach the lesson. Also included are the quotations 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.