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Age of exploration video for kids
Explorers of the world!
Harriet: These films provide a brilliant introduction to the lives of five explorers, as well as introducing a number of cross-curricular learning opportunities.
They are particularly useful for introducing elements of the curriculum for seven to eleven-year-olds in geography and science but can also be used as a stimulus for writing in several different fiction and non-fiction genre.
They also generate ideas for introducing maths into your topic as well.
Films are presented by two children: Fatima and Ollie, who are able to visit explorers from the past in their Holo-Lab.
They meet five very different explorers from different times, frontiers and continents.
From Ibn Battuta in Africa, to Neil Armstrong in space.
Each explorer tells Fatima and Ollie about their amazing adventures and each film introduces us to different aspects of science, geography or history, relevant to their travels.
Fatima and Ollie are learning along with us, asking the kind of questions we might want t