Travel with explorers as they search for new trade routes and treasures. Experience ingenuity at work on a deserted island with the Swiss Family Robinson. Learn about ocean life and what it provides for us each day. Feel the thrill of discovery and the call of adventure as you rub shoulders with those who dared to try – those who accomplished their dreams because they had the determination and the spirit of adventure required to make their dreams a reality.

What are some highlights from the unit on The Age of Exploration?

Studies and activities on: The explorers of our world and why there were so many during the Age of Exploration • Reading The Swiss Family Robinson, the classic story of a family's exciting and dangerous adventures on a deserted tropical island • Discussing the story, the author's techniques, and new words from the text • Discovering new places as the explorers go ashore and encounter peoples and customs that are so different from their own • Sampling foods native to the new countries • Setting goals • Following our theme of "destinations," traveling with the Israelites toward their destination - the Promised Land • Grammar concepts • Using abbreviations, quotations, possessives and contractions, correctly • Understanding cause and effect • Writing descriptive paragraphs, and an essay on survival • Creating a booklet of Explorers of the World – taking notes and including a brief biography of each, along with maps and routes of their travels • Visiting an aquarium • Memorizing the 10 commandments • World geography, and maps • Ocean life - the creatures, shells, and plant life, tides, careers in oceanography • Conducting experiments in oceanography • Creating a game with an ocean theme, using what you have learned and researching to make question cards • Reading poetry of explorers and the sea • Different types of ships • Planning an island party - incorporating an ocean theme and throwing in some buried treasure, sprinkling in some treasures from God's word • Creating a giant treasure hunt.