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Students choose an explorer from a given list, create an original song or poem based on the life of their explorer, make puppets to represent their explorer and then present their original piece to the class while students take notes on the each explorer.

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note-taking skills, puppetry, explorers, the age of exploration

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Grade
5th - 8th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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5 days
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