Primary Sources Teaching Kit Explorers

by Baicker, Karen

• ISBN13: 9780590378659
• ISBN10: 0590378651
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-10-01
• Publisher: Teaching Resources

Summary

Packed with reproducible primary sources—from a saga verse written by the Vikings to an Aztec Codex illustrating small pox victims—this collection of authentic documents will capture students’ interest in the events and people of the age of European exploration. Teaching materials provide background information, document-based discussion questions, and reproducibles that help kids analyze and evaluate each historical document. For use with Grades 4-8.

Table of Contents

Introduction	4	(2)
Time Line	6	(1)
Teaching Notes	7	(10)
Background information and teaching tips for all primary source documents
PRIMARY SOURCE EVALUATION FORM	17	(31)
Evaluate That Document!
PRIMARY SOURCE DOCUMENTS
EXPLORATION BEFORE COLUMBUS
The Vinland Sagas	18	(2)
Saga
Map of Vinland	20	(1)
Historic map
The Gutenberg Printing Press, the Gutenberg Bible	21	(2)
Engraving, Gutenberg Bible
Marco Polo's Description of the World	23	(1)
Account
Ptolemy's Geography	24	(1)
Historic map
COLUMBUS
Santa Fe Capitulations	25	(2)
Legal document
The Log of Columbus	27	(3)
Journal entries
Reporting on the Voyage	30	(1)
Letter, illustration
THE AGE OF EXPLORATION
The Sea of Darkness	31	(1)
Woodcut
Tools of the Trade	32	(2)
Artifacts and illustrations
Treaty of Tordesillas	34	(1)
Treaty
Blessed Be the Light of Day	35	(1)
Song
Magellan's Voyage Around the World	36	(1)
Journal, illustration
Salazar's Voyage	37	(1)
Journal
Cabeza de Vaca's La Relacion	38	(2)
Account
Roanoke, the Lost Colony	40	(1)
Log, illustration
NATIVE AMERICA AFTER CONTACT
Bartolome de Las Casas' The Tears of the Indians	41	(2)
Historical account
Smallpox	43	(5)
Aztec codex
ACTIVITY PAGES
Explorers KWL Ship Chart	44	(1)
Explorers Collector Cards	45	(1)
Ptolemy's World Map	46	(1)
Explorers Glossary	47	(1)
Explorers Journal	48