What were the aims, accomplishments, and obstacles of the early explorers of California? What were Spanish galleons? What routes did they follow?
• Lesson Objectives: Students will read and learn about different Explorers and fill out a chart listing the explorers’ goals, obstacles, and accomplishments. This is a multiday lesson where students will be introduced to different types of sources such as texts, visuals, and realia. First students will be introduced to the explorers of early California, were they will be introduced to conquistadors from Spain and England. Students will read about these explorers from their Reflections social studies textbook which is lesson 1 from unit 2, page 110. The first activity from this multiday lesson as students read and learn about each explorer consist of students filling out a chart “Explorers of Early California Retrieval Chart, 1542-1603”. This chart Includes the explorers: Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, Sir Francis Drake, Sebastian Rodrigues Cermeno, and Sebastian Vizcaino. Students have to fill out information for each explorer such as the country that sponsored them, the year they set to explore, aims/goals, accomplishments, and obstacles/failures. This activity will consist of two days since reading and discussion will take place after covering each