Day

Activity

Monday

·        Review previous Kentucky knowledge do a KWL Chart.

·        What is an Explorer?  What makes someone an explorer?

o        Go to www.webster.com and find definition of an explorer

·        Discuss geographical aspects of the land and what drew the explorers to this state

o        http://geology.com/state-map/kentucky.shtml

o        http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/usaweb/snapshot/Snapshot-USA-17.htm

·        Close your eyes and pretend they are explorers exploring Kentucky.

                        What do you see? Is anyone with you?

What kind of supplies do you have?

Why did you come to Kentucky?

What do you plan to do in Kentucky?

·        Journal about your experience you imagine.

Tuesday

·        Read story from Daniel Boone by Candice F. Ransom

·        Identify famous explorers of Kentucky 

o        Daniel Boone   http://www.americanwest.com/pages/boone.htm

o        James Harrod  http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0822834.html

o        George Rogers Clark http://www.kdla.ky.gov/resources/kygrclark.htm

·        Brochure assignment and hand out rubric.

o        In groups of three you will work together to develop a brochure to capture the information you have learned from this unit.  You will list facts about explorers and make your brochure appealing to other students and spark their interest in wanting to learn more about Kentucky.  If we sent this to other students in another State would they want to learn about Kentucky after reading your brochure?  What information can you put in this brochure to attract them to want to research and learn more about Kentucky explorers? 

·        Begin to work on your project and research on explorers.

Wednesday

·        Take a blank map of Kentucky to each student.  Discuss how we are going to mark the various areas and towns that Daniel Boone, James Harrod, and George Rogers Clark explored

o         http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/atlas/index.html?Parent=usofam&Rootmap=usky&Mode=b

·        Discuss other not so famous explorers of Kentucky ie: Thomas Walker

o        http://www.nps.gov/archive/cuga/walker.htm

o        Review his trail and mark on student maps areas of today (Cumberland gap, Kentucky River)

§         http://www.nps.gov/archive/cuga/walkrmap.gif

·        Show video Within the Shadows of Cumberland Gap  so students can hear and listen to stories from people of that time and how their stories about their settlements.

·        Continue work on Brochure

Thursday

Virtual Field Trip

Finalize Brochures

Kentuckywood Squares Review Game

Friday

Culminating (Summative) Project

·        Students will present brochures to one another and review what  each other has learned

·        New groups will be divided to bring together all the brochures and develop a class brochure about Kentucky explorers to send to another class in another State.

See Rubric