Explorer Projects

                 Explorer Projects
                 By:Daboh

    On our first unit of Social Studies, we did Explorer Projects. First, we had to pick an explorer. Then we had to do research using many different resources such as a book, encyclopedia, and websites. For every resource we had to jot down notes about our explorers that we found.

    Next we had to pick a type of project to do. Most people chose a poster but I chose a keynote presentation. You could also have chosen to do a Prezi, a glogster, and everybody book, e.t.c. The due date for our projects was November 11 so we had about 2-3 weeks to complete our projects. On Monday, (the due date) everyone was showing off their projects. At the end of the day the excitement was even more intense because our teacher had announced that we would get a chance to share our projects to everyone. We would have to take a couple post-its and write a comment to the ones that really popped out to you. Then that Wednesday, the parents came and you were able to share your projects with them. It was really cool to see how people did the same explorer as you, but they added completely different information. Some people got inspired to do different projects next time after looking at everyone's projects. I was inspired by the prezis. They could zoom in and add info inside a bubble with different information.

    Do you want to do an explorer project? Try it and find out!