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Self-assessment is a powerful tool to help you evaluate your learning development.
Use the K-W-L chart below to keep track of your progress.

K What I W What I Want L What I Dear Parents,

As part of our social studies program, your child has been learning about
Know
Learned
to Know
the Age of Exploration. Your child learned ways that he or she can
identify the effect of exploration on our modern life.
You can help your child by supporting our classroom learning.

Here are some things you can do to reinforce the message of this lesson

and our related learning activities.
• Ask your child to tell you about the lesson and what he or she
learned from it.

• Help your child to explain the effects of exploration even today on
our modern life.

• Watch a video about the European explorers searching for a new
sea route to India.
• Watch with your child a video about Christopher Columbus and

his discoveries.
• Watch with your child a video about Ibn Battuta and the
countries he discovered.

Thank you for being a partner with us
in the education of your child!
Tidbit

Venezuela got its name when Amerigo Vespucci saw
Research has shown that children with involved parents score
how the natives had elevated their houses above the
better than others whose parents don't have a role in their
water in a way similar to Venice, hence came the education process. Help your child stay brilliant!

name “Venezuela” or “Little Venice.”
A village made of stilt houses
in Maracaibo Lake, Venezuela

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