Name ______________________________________ Date ___________ Class _________
Station Work: Crosses and Angles
Directions: you will be completing five of the nine activities from the chart listed below.
However, the activities you choose to complete must create a “cross” or an “angle” on the
chart below, if you were to cross them out or circle them. After you have completed your work,
staple this sheet to the activities to be turned in. If you finish early, you may complete extra
activities for extra credit.
Political Cartoon
List of Ideas and
Inventions
Countdown
Conversation
between Galileo
and Copernicus
Poem
Trading Cards
Magazine Article
Journal Entry
Flip Book
Timeline
Political Cartoon –
Draw a political cartoon involving one of the groups of explorers and an
indigenous group they encountered once they came to the New World. Your
cartoon should focus on actual events/problems that occurred between the two
groups, however your cartoon may be comedic in nature.
Example…
Magazine Article (one to two pages) –
Choose one of the great figures from the Scientific Revolution. Write a
magazine article with a brief feature about the figure’s accomplishments,
which will appear in Scientific Weekly about the figure. Also, include an
interview with the figure of at least eight questions.
Trading Cards –
Use index cards to create trading cards for three important figures from the
Scientific Revolution. On one side, do your best to illustrate the person. On
the other side, identify the character by where they are from, the area of
science they focused on, any scientific discovery they made, and any famous
works they may have written.
Flipbook –
Choose the five explorers whom you believe to be the most influential
explorers from the Age of Exploration. Create a layered flipbook using
information about each man. Your flipbook must include the years of
exploration, nationality they sailed for, major exploration accomplishment,
reason they started exploring.
Timeline –
Use your textbook to create a timeline of the major events in Exploration and
Science during the 1400s-1600s. Make sure to integrate the achievements of
the explorers and the scientists, but keep the achievements of the explorers on
one side and the achievements of the scientists on the other side.
Journal Entry from the First Voyage (one half page) –
Imagine you are someone who might be on a ship travelling to the new world
during the 1500s (an explorer, mapmaker, sailor, slave, slave merchant,
settler, etc.). On your trip across the Atlantic you have decided to start
documenting your voyage. Write a journal entry in which you explain who
you are, why you are on the ship, and some of the experiences you have
experienced so far on your trip.
Poem (half one page) –
Write a poem about the plight of the conquered indigenous people. Take one
of the groups of native Americans and write a poem about some of the
struggles they endured. Your poem can focus on one or two individuals, or it
can focus on your group as a whole. Your poem should also follow the
conventions of poetry by adhering to one of the established poetry formulas
(e.g. ballad, sonnet, free verse, etc.). No haikus allowed.
List of the Ideas and Inventions Countdown –
Rate the following ideas and inventions in a countdown from most important
contribution to the world to least important contribution to the world. For
each idea or invention, compose a statement explaining the importance of the
invention or idea and why the invention or idea ranked where it did in your
countdown of most important contributions to the world.
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Heliocentric Theory
Telescope
Law of Universal Gravitation
The Law of Conservation of Matter
The Printing Press
Compass
Map Projections
Astrolabe
Caravel
Mercantilism
Conversation between Nicholas Copernicus and Galileo Galilei (one page) –
Briefly analyze the biographical information about Nicholas Copernicus and
Galileo Galilei. Compose a dialogue the two men might have discussing their
ideas about the universe.