The Age of Exploration Begins
by Boom Boom Resource Room © 2026
Price: $3 USD
Subjects: worldHistory,geography
Grades: 5,6,7,8
Description
Teach the Age of Exploration with 42 self-checking Boom Cards and 24 original, realistic colored-pencil historical illustrations. This grades 5–8 social studies and world history lesson introduces early European explorers, Portuguese expeditions, navigation technology, and established African and Asian trading communities. Six lesson cycles each include four teaching cards, two text-only multiple-choice questions, and one image-identification question. Includes 24 instructional cards and 18 interactive questions with four native Boom answer choices, immediate feedback, and sequential playback. Topics include: • Spices, profit, trade routes, royal support, and religious motives • Prince Henry the Navigator, Gil Eanes, Cape Bojador, and Atlantic islands • Compass, mariner’s astrolabe, latitude, nautical charts, and caravels • Crew responsibilities, provisions, storms, and winds • Bartolomeu Dias and the Cape of Good Hope • Vasco da Gama, local pilots, Calicut, and Indian Ocean trade Students identify key ideas, connect navigation tools with their purposes, and interpret historical images. Respectful instruction recognizes existing societies and addresses unequal effects of expansion, including coercion and enslaved labor. Scenes are historical reconstructions. Use for class lessons, small groups, centers, independent practice, homeschool, review, and formative assessment. Search topics: Age of Discovery, European exploration, Portuguese explorers, spice trade.
Acknowledgements
AI was used in portions of the development of this product, including assistance with lesson text, questions, and original historical illustrations.