Questions to Help Guide Your Research
1. What is the name of your explorer?
2. When was your explorer born? When did he die
and of what cause?
3. When and where did he explore?
4. How many voyages or expeditions did he make?
5. How large was the group that traveled with him?
6. What were the reasons for his voyage or expedition?
7. Where did the money come from to support his voyage
or expedition?
8. Were there any travel difficulties?
9. How did he and his group relate to the native people?
10. Any other interesting facts about this explorer?
Key questions to be certain to include in your information......
1. Did the explorer treat the native people in an appropriate manner based on how people felt at that time? What about the way people feel today?
2. Was the explorer successful? Explain.
3. Was the explorer unsuccessful? Explain.
4. Was what the explorer accomplished worth his sacrifices?
Most important question
Why is this
explorer a good choice as the explorer who did the most
good and/or
the most harm???????????