Explorers – Common Core Lessons & Activities

The Common Core Series is the 2014 winner of the Smart Book Award from Academics’ Choice.



How to Use the Explorers - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
- Work through the lessons and activities as a class to teach your students higher-order thinking, analysis, and 21st century skills necessary to meet new Common Core expectations.
- Allow students to work through the lessons independently to build and practice these new skills.
- Include technology, collaboration, presentations, and discussion in the activities as you desire - you can decide how in-depth to go.
- Watch your class develop new abilities to meet the rigor of Common Core State Standards, right before your eyes!

Click HERE to view sample pages from this book.

Tips:
- Use some of the pages - or use them all - based on your grade, your students, your curriculum, and your needs.
- Use these pages at their current size, or if you prefer them to be 8.5" X 11", enlarge them 125% on your copy machine.
- To download the graphic organizers labeled "GO" in the Table of Contents click HERE.
- Use the correlations grid to easily see which Common Core standards are covered in each lesson.

The Explorers - Common Core Lessons and Activities includes:
- Reading for Information
- Higher-Order Thinking
- Writing Problems
- Primary Source Analysis
- Vocabulary
- Graphic Organizers
- Map Activities
- & More!

Here is the Table of Contents for the Explorers - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
Age of Exploration: Reading Informational Text
Reasons for Exploration: Reading Informational Text GO4
Means of Discovery: Reading Informational Text
Obstacles and Rewards: Classifying Information GO5
Prince Henry the Navigator: Reading Informational TextPortuguese Explorers: Reading Informational Text GO11
Columbus' Discovery: Reading Informational Text
An Early Map: Primary Source Analysis
The New World: Primary Source Analysis
Tainos: Reading Informational Text
The Age of Exploration: Graphic Organizer G
More Spanish Explorers: Reading Informational Text G
Conquistadors: Reading Informational Text GO1
English Explorers: Reading Informational Text
French Explorers: Reading Informational Text
Explorer Quotations: Point of View G
Exploring the Americas: Chronological Events GO12
Regions of Exploration: Map Activity
Explorer's Vocabulary: Vocabulary G
Common Core State Standards Correlations

G: Includes Graphic Organizer
GO: Graphic Organizer is also available 8 1/2" x 11" online download HERE.

(numbers above correspond to the graphic organizer numbers online)