Explorer One-Pagers

Student draft work

Student final drafts

Educator Resources

Introduction to the mindset of an Explorer
inspired by the National Geographic Learning Framework

• What does it mean to be an Explorer?
  • Students think-pair-share ideas of how they would describe an Explorer
• Characteristics of Explorers
  • We watched a series of short videos to meet a variety of Explorers
  • Students took notes using the following guiding questions:
    • What are characteristics of an Explorer?
    • Why do they explore the world?
    • How do they make a difference?
    • What do they explore?
  • Students were tasked with preparing a draft and final one-pager to articulate responses to the guiding questions using evidence from the videos.
    • I prepared an elink page with links to videos for students to go back and reference - https://elink.io/p/explorers-983e589
      

While I used a variety of videos to share with students, the story of Jason De León's work was of particular interest to my students due to our geographic proximity to the US-Mexico border and because of family background and experiences with migration from the US from Mexico.