Exploring Explorers Activity Worksheet

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Exploring Explorers Activity Worksheet


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This activity will help you think about the reasons why people explore unknown lands.

 

Early Explorers
1. Go to the Why Do People Explore website (http://library.thinkquest.org/C001692/english/index.php3?subject=why/organised). Name some of the nations involved in early explorations of the world.

 

 

 


Why Explore?
2. Note some of the reasons famous explorers had for undertaking their expeditions to unknown lands.





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