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Explore, Discover, Reveal: Adventure Awaits!

3rd Edition Online Resources

This unit is organized around the idea that our world has many exciting places and ideas to explore and that exploration can be done both physically and cognitively. Students in grades 3-4 will learn to adopt the mindset of an explorer and grow to understand that each of us explores the world in many different ways.

The list below provides links to online resources as a companion to the curriculum unit. 

resources for unit

Lesson 2 Flip Grid Community Idea Sharing Padlet Idea Board

Lesson 3 Chris Grabenstein's Game Companion to: Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library

Lesson 4 American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms Word Wall Figurative Language Games Symbaloo Figurative Language Games

Lesson 5 National Geographic Kids Britannica Kids Native Americans or American Indians A People's History: Kids in History: A Boy and His Vision Quest DK Findout! Native Americans

Lesson 6 Fact or Opinion Game by Room Recess

Lesson 7 Opinion Writing Games by Word Wall Quizizz Opinion Games

Lesson 8 DK Findout Africa, African Music and Griots Britannica Kids Explanation of Elements of Culture, including food! PBS Kids Go Africa Griot  Storytelling Traditions: West Africa

Lesson 9 History AE Christopher Columbus Britannica: Age of Discovery Encyclopedia Virginia UVA: The Age of Exploration Britannica Kids Early Exploration of the Americas Library of Congress: Europe Claims America: The Atlantic Joined Smithsonian: The Indigenous Americans Who Visited Europe National Geographic: Education Native Americans in Colonia Virginia Time Magazine: Colonial America is a Myth by Dr. Pekka Hämäläinen of Oxford University Minnesota Historical Society: Native Nations and the Newcomers History Channel: Native American History Timeline Central Michigan University: Indigenous Perspectives on History and Today

Lesson 11 Reading Rockets Hamburger Writing Strategy Visual and Ideas Free Editable Hamburger Paragraph Examples by Wondershare Edraw Max Canva Venn Diagram Maker

Lesson 12 The Critical Thinking Community Wheel of Reasoning

Lesson 13 Research Facts for Kids by Kiddle PBS World Explorers Collection Discovery Article: A Canadian Teen Once Discovered an Ancient Temple – Using Google Maps by Lucy Sherriff National Geographic: Canadian Teen Who 'Discovered' Lost Maya City Speaks Out Interactive Clickable Map of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Lesson 14 PBS Age of Encounter: Explorers and Navigators Labyrinth Society Classical Labyrinths Ashmolean Museum Labyrinth in Myth and History

Lesson 17 Harriet Tubman Art Print by Aaron Douglas with hieratical background, housed by the North Carolina Museum of Art The Discovery of American by Christopher Columbus by free Dalí Museum online Susan Aldworth Interview with Art Prints by not for profit repsychl, a UK based magazine exploring how psychotherapy and contemporary arts interconnect through stories exploring the human condition

Lesson 18 DK Findout Poetry Word Cloud Generator Word Art Generator