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!

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.