In this unit, students will become a famous explorer. Students will choose an explorer to research. They will follow the rubric to investigate an explorer. Students can be broken up into 5 groups. Each group will represent a different Explorer (John Cabot, Vasco Nunez Balboa, Juan Ponce de Leon, Henry Hudson, and Jacques Cartier). You can choose to do this project with partners, or it can be an independent activity too. Students are not choosing Christopher Columbus because they will be compar