Exploration Basics
This is a person who travels to learn about new places.
What is an explorer?
Which country built the first permanent English settlement at Jamestown?
What is England?
Which of these is a tool early explorers used to find direction: laptop, car, compass, or drone?
What is a compass?
What happened to Indigenous people when Europeans came? Choose the best short answer: lost land, gained land, moved to Europe, or stayed the same.
What is Indigenous people lost land and their ways of life changed.
Name one reason European countries wanted to explore North America.
What is to find fur, gold, or land for farms / to make money or trade?
Name two of the three European countries listed that competed to settle land in North America.
What are Spain and France? (also accept England)
How are maps today different from maps made long ago?
What is maps today are more accurate and include many different details?
Give one way European exploration changed life for Indigenous peoples.
What is: They lost land or their traditions were affected or they faced many challenges.
The explorers who came to North America were mostly from which continent?
What is Europe?
On a map of North America, where would the Spanish settlement be directionally?
What is the south/southwest? What is New Mexico, Florida, and the Caribbean Islands?
Give one example of something maps today show that old maps might not have shown well.
What is exact coastlines, many towns, or accurate shapes of countries?
Why is it important to say how exploration affected Indigenous peoples when we learn history?
What is: So we understand both sides and know the real effects on people who already lived there.
Give two things the explorers thought they might find in the new land.
What are furs and gold? (also accept land for farms)
What parts of North America did the French settle?
What is Near Canada, the Great Lakes, and the St. Lawrence Rivers?
Explain why a compass was important for explorers in one short sentence.
It helped them know which way to sail so they wouldn't get lost.
In a sentence for 2nd graders, explain why some Indigenous people had a hard time after Europeans arrived.
What is: They lost their homes, got sick from new diseases, and had to change how they lived.
Explain in one simple sentence why countries built colonies in North America.
They wanted land and resources to help their country grow and make money?
On the map, where did the English settle?
What is a long the east coast, near Virginia and the Atlantic Ocean?
Describe one way mapmakers long ago learned to make better maps over time.
They used explorers' notes, more travel, and better tools to make maps more correct.
Give two ways Europeans and Indigenous peoples sometimes interacted (one positive or neutral, one negative).
What is: They sometimes traded goods (positive), and sometimes fought or lost land (negative).