Age of Exploration Centers
October 17, 2022
During their recent Age of Exploration Centers, our 4th Grade students explored what it was like to be a sailor during the time when the first explorers from Europe arrived in the New World.
They smelled the different spices the explorers traded, made their own cartography tools and navigation tools the sailors would have used, learned to tie different sailors knots, and had a piece of hardtack, the common type of bread the sailors ate. Students also played a dice game the sailors enjoyed as well as a board game in which they learned the many difficulties (like disease and bad weather) the sailors endured to cross the Atlantic.