Ecology Explorers: Historical Air Photo Interpretation

Here you'll find several worksheets and mini-activities for giving your learners a great overview of early explorers, including the motivations and home countries of famous explorers and development of new technologies.

Develop historical analysis and interpretation with your older students. They will study and analyze three given interpretations of Christopher Columbus' life, which includes significant events, his character, and the impact he made on...

In this primary source analysis activity, students select historical photographs and then respond to 9 analysis questions about the photograph they select.

In this primary source analysis learning exercise, students select historical photographs and then respond to 25 analysis questions that address the senses regarding the photograph they select.

Someone finds a time capsule 100 years from now, and it includes your family photo album. What would the photos tell that person about you and your place in history? Scholars investigate how artifacts tell stories. Using photos, maps,...

Relive the birth of ecology and its different branches. The narrator of the 37th video lesson in a History of Sciences series explains the systems nature of ecology. He then explores the major advances of ecology from a historical...

What would the world look like if we could control the weather? Historically, countries have attempted to do just that, but their intentions were not always good! The 39th lesson in a History of Science series describes science projects...

Students identify and analyze land use changes over time with historical aerial photographs. They classify different land use into categories.

Seventh graders research European Explorers lives. They create a Word Document, or slide show based on their research.

Fifth graders complete a variety of activities surrounding European exploration of the New World. They research one explorer and write and present an essay or script in which they portray that explorer as he makes his final report to his...