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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