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Central Idea
Explorations lead to discovers, opportunities and the development of new
understandings.
Time Frame: Roughly 2.5 Weeks
W.A.L.T. (Learning Objectives- To Know the Reason of Exploration) (Strategy # 1
Task Definition)
Going Further:

Using the Big 6 Researching skills students choose one explorer that theyre interested in and produce a biography.
Students will add the effects of exploration and make the conclusion of exploration

Action:

Students will make a digital scrap book using Voice Thread on their favorite explorer including: pictures, map, timeline,
biography, (3 minute video optional), bibliography ( Works Cited)

Explorer: James Cook

Time Management
Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday Thursday

Co-construct
the Summative
Assessment
and continue
to research
their explorer.

Voice Thread
IT Session with
Sarah
Know who your
explorer is that
you want to
research.
Students start
to research
their explorer
and complete
the booklet

Overnight Trip

Overnight Trip

Overnight trip

Students start
to research
their explorer
and complete
the booklet

Writing out your

biography and
placing things into
your voice thread.

Writing out your

biography and
placing things
into your voice
thread.11:4512:30
Trouble
Shooting with

Mini Lesson on
how to write a
biography.
Students start
to research
their explorer
and complete
the booklet

Voice Thread
with Sarah

Voice Thread
Double
Session with
Sarah

Using reading time to research project.

Review how to Feedback on
Feedback on
leave a
voice thread
voice thread
response on
and edit your
and edit your
voice thread.
work
work
Peer editing
Using reading time to research project.

Reflection on
the Unit

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Strategies for Research:

W.A.L.T.:

Using the Big 6 Researching skills students choose one other explorer that theyre interested in and produce
the biography of the explorer.

1
2
3

Task
Definition
Information
Seeking
Strategies
Location
& Access

What am I supposed to do? List what information you feel

you need to know at this time (consider listing in question
form.)
List the best sources to find this information. If using web
sites, who will evaluate them for relevancy, accuracy, and
authority?

Where will I locate these sources? List likely keywords.

Use of
Information

How will I record the information that I find? How will I give
credit to my sources?

Synthesis

How will I show my results?

Evaluation

Is what I created to finish the assignment appropriate for

what I was supposed to do in Big6 #1? Does the
information I found in Big6 #4 match the information
needed in Big6 #1?

These strategies can be seen

throughout this booklet. Please refer
to the chart to help guide you.
Finding Out
Site your Sources: Websites, Videos, Books
How to site your research using MLA style:

Websites
Videos
Books
Last Name, First. Article Title. Website Name.
Day Month Year of Publication.

Last Name, First Name. Title of Interview (if applicable). Title of Print Source or
Broadcast Program. Day Month Year of Interview. Medium of Publication.
Author Last Name, First Name. Book Title. City Published: Publisher, Year Published.
Print.

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/648225/The-World-Book-Encyclopedia
Websites
Ex. Underwater
Engineers: Princeton
Students Design ROVs.
Ohio.gov: Department
of Education. Web. 3
Aug. 2009.

Videos
Ex. Hudson, Jennifer.
Interview by Lester
Holt. Dateline. NBC.,
Columbus, OH. 12
Jan. 2012. Television.

Books
Ex.
Parrot, Andrea,
and Nina
Cummings.
Forsaken
Females: The
Global

Brutalization of
Women. Lanham,
MD:
Roman, 2006.
Print.
http://www.cscc.edu/library/mla.pdf
(Strategies # 2 and 3 Seeking Information and Use of Information)
Sources- Please place your sources here as you go through your assignment:
Whipps Heather How captain cook change the world July 06,2008 Live Science

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The Research Pyramid

Questions you have: why did James

cook take all his sons in the first
expedition

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Strategy # 5 Synthesis

Map of Voyages:

Map Website Links:

Sorting It Out
Strategy # 5 Synthesis
W.A.L.T.

Using the Big 6 Researching skills students choose one other explorer that theyre interested in and produce the
biography of the explorer.

Timeline- Big Ideas

Timeline with the Key Events:
Eg. 2014- Event

James Cook is born the son of a casual farm labourer

in a tiny cottage in Marton in Cleveland. His father had
married Grace Pace at Stainton in Cleveland in 1725
and between 1727 and 1745 they have eight children,
four dying in infancy. The eldest, John, is to die later
aged just 23 and only James and two sisters Christiana
and Margaret live through to adulthood.
1735

With the opportunity of fu

move to Aireyholme farm
where James' father beco
Thomas Skottowe of Ayto
in the area.

1740

Mr Skottowe pays for you

Postgate School at Great A

especially arithmetic. On l
twelve, James works on th
brother for a while.
1744

Cook's proficiency in lette

Skottowe obtains a positio
general dealers shop belo
Staithes. Here he hears ta
soon Sanderson recognise
elsewhere than shopkeepi

1746

After just eighteen month

recommends the youngste
Whitby a shipowner who r
the Baltic. Apprenticed to
on the 341 ton coal-carryi
attic of Walker's house in
studies navigation and the

1752

At the age of 23 Cook is p

'Friendship', another of W

17 Jun 1755

He declines an offer of the

volunteers for service as a
Navy. He is drafted to the
where he is soon promote
in the Channel under Capt
member of parliament for
supporter.

30 Jun 1757

Discharged from 'Eagle', C

Leith in Scotland.

27 Oct 1757

Cook, now a 'master', is d

the squadron under Admir
Halifax, Nova Scotia in Ap
Atlantic in record time but
scurvy - a fact which is to
welfare of his later crews.
the French base of Louisb
surveyor Samuel Holland
techniques. His charting o
storming of Quebec and th
Canada. Cook remains in

work on HMS Northumber

appointed Governor of Ne
command as master of th
21 Dec 1762

Cook marries Elizabeth Ba

Margaret's church, Barkin

May 1763

Cook sails to Newfoundlan

accurate surveys of the co
England each winter to dr

13 Oct 1763

First son, James, born. (d

14 Dec 1764

Second son, Nathaniel, bo

1766

Solar eclipse observed at

1767

Only daughter, Elizabeth,

Sources: http://www.captaincook.org.uk/timeline.php

Going Further
Strategy # 5 Synthesis
W.A.L.T.

Using the Big 6 Researching skills students choose one other explorer that theyre interested in and produce the
biography of the explorer.

Reasons for the Exploration:

HewasalatecomertotheAgeofExploration,butJamesCookstill
managedtoputhismarkonworldhistoryinthefinalfrontierofterra
incognitathePacificOceananditsisles.Cookusedthelatest
scientificmethodsandtechniquesofcartographytocharthisepic
voyagestoplacessuchasTahiti,Australia,NewZealandandHawaii.
Manyofhisexpeditionsmarkedthefirsttimethatnativeinhabitantsof
thoseislandshadeverseenaWesternface.

Sources

http://www.livescience.com/2656captain-cook-changed-world.html

Going Further
Strategy # 5 Synthesis
W.A.L.T.

Finally, students make the conclusion of exploration (the impact of exploration to modern world and the importance of
learning the past explorations).

Graphic Organizer for your Biography

Intro- 3 points

Big Idea # 1

Big Idea # 3

Big Idea # 2

Big Idea # 3

Optional Big Idea # 4

Conclusion:
(See reasons for explorations section to get some ideas)

Strategy # 6 Evaluation- Co-constructed criteria will be created at a later

date.