2. brainstorm the characteristics of an explorer.
3. make a list of places that can be explored.
4. listen to a story of a famous explorer and discuss his characteristics as an explorer.
5. pretend to be explorers and share what they found as explorers.
2. Introduce the word "explorer" and, using examples of things the children have explored or places that people like to explore, make a web of many characteristics of an explorer.
3. Review the explorer, Columbus, introduced in Kindergarten lessons. Read the story, Follow the Dream , by Peter Sis. Talk about the man and see if the children can add more qualities to the explorer's web in the previous activities.
4. The teacher should keep a daily time line starting on September 6. Have the children move a ship (representing Columbus's ship) on a popsicle stick each day along the time line until October 12. If the class charts weather in the classroom, keep a weather log as though Columbus was charting the weather.