The Age of Exploration: CKHG Student Reader
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The Age of Exploration introduces students to European exploration and trade from 1400 to the 1600s. Students learn about motivations for exploration, specific explorers, encounters with indigenous peoples, and the early slave trade.
Core Knowledge History and Geography™ (CKHG) Student Readers offer engagingly written text with many color illustrations, maps, vocabulary sidebars, and a glossary. For each reader, a Teacher Guide and Timeline Cards are separately available. All materials may be downloaded and previewed in their entirety.
The Age of Exploration introduces students to European exploration and trade from 1400 to the 1600s. Students learn about motivations for European exploration, including profit from the trade of goods such as gold, silk, sugar, and spices, as well as the desire to spread Christianity. Students study specific explorers (Bartolomeu Dias, Vasco de Gama, Pedro Cabral, Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan, and Vasco Núñez de Balboa) and learn about their encounters with indigenous peoples. Students also learn about John Cabot and the search for the Northwest Passage, Sir Francis Drake, Jacques Cartier, Samuel de Champlain, and Henry Hudson. Students are introduced to the early slave trade and the beginnings of slavery in the Americas.
Related Components
- Teacher Guide: with detailed lesson plans, activity page masters, additional activities, and assessments
- Timeline Cards: visual aids to reinforce big ideas, chronology, and context
Preview the Book
Download this CKHG Student Reader in its entirety in PDF form.
Bundles:
- The Age of Exploration Homeschool Set:
1 Student Reader
1 Teacher Guide
1 set of Timeline Cards - The Age of Exploration Classroom Set:
25 Student Readers
1 Teacher Guide
1 set of Timeline Cards - Grade 5 World History Set:
For each of five CKHG titles:
25 Student Readers
1 Teacher Guide
1 set of Timeline Cards (for all except World Lakes) - Grade 5 Complete Grade-Level Set:
For each of nine CKHG titles:
25 Student Readers
1 Teacher Guide
1 set of Timeline Cards (for all except World Lakes)
About CKHG
Core Knowledge History and Geography™ (CKHG) is a comprehensive program in world and American history and geography, integrating topics in civics and the arts. CKHG helps students build knowledge of the diverse civilizations, cultures, and concepts specified in the Core Knowledge Sequence.
CKHG Student Readers offer engagingly written text with many color illustrations, maps, vocabulary sidebars, and a glossary. In general, the content and presentation in CKHG Student Readers for Grades 3-5 are appropriate for young readers from the upper elementary grades through middle school (Lexile levels 650 – 980).
Using CKHG in the Classroom
- For Social Studies: Used in their recommended sequence, CKHG materials can form the basis of an engaging Social Studies program that builds historical and geographical knowledge and skills grade by grade.
- For Language Arts: You can also use CKHG to integrate content-rich nonfiction into your Reading/Language Arts lessons. CKHG objectives are correlated with the Common Core English Language Arts standards, which call for increased reading of nonfiction informational texts.
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Paperback
6.7 in. W x 9.6 in. H
104 pages
ISBN: 978-1-68380-064-4
