In this lesson students will look into the reasons Europeans started to explore outside of Europe leading to the discovery of the Americas. Included is a whole lesson as well as a reading handout for an activity. This is lesson one of 5 for a European Exploration Unit.

In this lesson students explore which explorers discovered what and why that all led to colonies being created in the Americas. This source was made for remote learning therefore has a lot of guided instruction which can easily be removed if it is too much for the older years. It comes with a reading tasks and source analysis task to really give their skills a go!