Columbus Day

COLUMBUS DAY CENTER: http://theteacherscorner.net/seasonal/columbus/center.htm Fill a bulletin board with Columbus's ships as students trace a timeline and his journey westward.	COLUMBUS' FIRST VOYAGE TO THE NEW WORLD http//www.teachervision.com/tv/printables/FactsAboutColumbus.pdf The names of Columbus' ships are well known, but what about their sizes? Find a printout here where students will label the parts of the ships, and investigate and add to a timeline for Columbus' first voyage.
COLUMBUS DAY: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/1465/columbus.html Explore this site for vast resources on Columbus and his voyages, as well as a wide variety of useful links.	Lots of Links to columbus Day Sites and activities: http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/columbusday.html
CHRISTOPHER'S CROSSING http//edweb.sdsu.edu/courses/edtec670/Cardboard/Board /C/Columbus.html If you need an innovative approach to your explorer lessons, try this game board activity for learning about early navigation, Christopher Columbus, and the age of exploration. Sample game cards and board are included.	1492 POEM http//www.geocities.com/Athens/Thebes/9893/columbus.htm Ever wonder what the complete words were to the "sailed the ocean blue" poem? Here they are; have your early elementary class pair up to present a small play, each group quoting 2 lines and holding up a construction paper ocean on a popsicle stick, the three ships from other groups, etc.
THE TWO SIDES OF COLUMBUS http//www.teachnet.com/lesson/socstudies/columbus101298.html Christophe Colombe has recently fallen out of favor with fresh historical perspectives. Your students can examine his fame from the point of view of Honduran In-dians, though you may wish to have your students consider that their own viewpoints are biased to modern contexts and visions. How would they have viewed similar evidence 550 years ago? Try two mock trials, from the perspectives of two different historical time frames. You might also lead an invigorating and valuable discussion on how we can--or cannot--discern historical accuracies. Also available at this site is an activity to reproduce, to scale, the dimensions of Columbus' ships by drawing them with chalk in the school parking lot.	CHART COLUMBUS' VOYAGE http//teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-3029.html Students will use different colored pencils to chart the routes Christopher Columbus took on his voyages to the New World. Student handouts included.
GO WEST WITH COLUMBUS http://www.bry-backmanor.org/actpag10.html http://www.bry-backmanor.org/actpag10b.html Create a board game with this printable, where students will travel along the routes Columbus took to the New World. Both URLs above are necessary to print out all the elements for the game.	COLUMBUS DISCOVERS THE NEW WORLD http//www.teachervision.com/tv/printables/ColumbusDiscovery.pdf Follow Columbus' route of his first voyage to the New World with this printable, then label continents and countries that were important to his voyage.