Discovering America!Tessa Lipford

Standards and Objectives

• Content Area: Social Studies

• Grade Level: 4

• Summary: The purpose of this instructional PowerPoint is for the student to have a better understanding of the early explorers and how the Americas can to be.

• Learning Objective: Given websites of the early explorers and the routes that they took, the student will be able to research the explorers and then answer two questions in the PowerPoint over the material they read with a 100% accuracy.

• State or Common Core: 4.4 Trace the routes of early explorers and describe the early explorations of the Americas, including: Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan, Amerigo Vespucci, Robert de La Salle, Hernando de Soto, Henry Hudson, Jacques Cartier

• ISTE Standard:3.d. Model and facilitate effective use of current and emerging digital tools to locate, analyze, evaluate, and use information resources to support research and learning.

Christopher Columbus

• Christopher Columbus was a Italian explorer that discovered the Americas for King Ferdinand of Spain in 1492.

• Goal: To find an alternative path to India.

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Landed in present day Bahamas.

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• Theory: Thought he could sail across the ocean to get there.

• Outcome: He was wrong!

Click the picture! Read more about him in order to answer the questions at the end.

Amerigo Vespucci

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• Amerigo Vespucci was a Italian explorer that explored the coast of South and North America.

• Goal: To find Western route to Asia!

• Theory: The land that Columbus found was not Asia, but a new continent.

• Outcome: He was right! Because of this, America was named after him!

Click the picture! Watch the 3 minute video and read more about him to answer the questions.

1st route discovered North America!

2nd route discovered South America and the Amazon River!

Hernando de Soto

• Hernando de Soto was a Spanish explorer and conquistador that was known to have discovered the Mississippi River and his participation in the conquests of Central America and Peru.

Click the picture! read more about him to answer the questions.

• Goal: To find glory and riches.

• Theory: That the New World was rich with gold and silver that he could claim.

• Outcome: He was right, but died before it was discovered.

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He was buried in the Mississippi River after he died.

Robert de La Salle

He named Louisiana after King Louis XIV.

He discovered the Gulf of Mexico!

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Click the picture! read more about him to answer the questions.

• Theory: There was a eastern passage to Asia.

• Outcome: He was wrong, but still found a passage from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.

• Robert de La Salle was a French explorer that was known to sail the entirety of the Mississippi River and discovering the Coast of Mexico.

• Goal: To explore and establish a fur-trade routes.

What did Columbus name the small island that he first landed on in the Bahamas?

A.Cuba B.Santa Maria C.San Salvador D.Caribbean Island

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What did Robert de La Salle build when they reached the Gulf of Mexico?

A.A fortB.A settlement C.A canoe D.A cross

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Great Job!• When Columbus land in the

Bahamas on October 12, 1492 he named the Island San Salvador, which means “holy savior”!

Continue to the next question!

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If you still don’t get the question review the website again. Then, return to the question.

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• That’s right! La Salle built the cross to symbolize Frances claim to the land along the Mississippi River on April 9,1682.

Continue to the Summary page!

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• If you still don’t get the question review the website again. Then, return to the question.

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Let’s Review!

• Christopher Columbus discovered the Americas by accident!• America was named after Amerigo Vespucci after he

stated the new route to Asia was actually a new continent. • Robert de La Salle discovered the Gulf of Mexico and

claimed all the land along the Mississippi River for France. • Hernando de Soto was a conquistador that was set

on finding glory and riches, and known to have discovered the Mississippi River.

The End!

EXIT