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Third Grade Social Studies

Strand 1: American History

**Concept 3:** **Exploration and Colonization** **PO 1**. Discuss technological advances (e.g., compass, printing press) that facilitated exploration of the New World. **PO 2**. Recognize that European countries explored the New World for economic and political reasons. **PO 3**. Discuss European explorers (e.g., Samuel Champlain, Henry Hudson, John Cabot, Jacques Cartier, Ponce de Leon, Hernan de Soto) and their discoveries in the New World.

Who/what contributed to the exploration of the New World?

Students will explore technological advances that contributed to exploration, why these people explored, and who these explorers were.