Save time planning history lessons on Christopher Columbus for KS1 students by downloading a handy Twinkl resource. Ideal for use with students aged 5-7, our excellent worksheets and PowerPoints provide essential information on this famous Italian, his voyages, reading comprehension and more. You can't go wrong with our informative Christopher Columbus Primary Resources for KS1 classes on this famous figure of history.
We have created this range of Christopher Columbus Primary Resources to support your KS1 history teaching at school and at home. Children will find out all about this Italian explorer who changed the world by navigating to the Americas in the 15th Century as part of European colonisation. There's a huge range of varied Christopher Columbus primary resources available for you here, which is great for keeping students engaged and focussed.
We have differentiated lesson packs, an information PowerPoint and fact file, themed writing frames for work and display resources for this topic including vocabulary. They can learn about this period of European exploration and expansion of territory which will lay the foundation for later study of the Renaissance and American history.
We've also got plenty of lovely display resources, great for brightening up the classroom, all while helping students retain information from their topics, too! Putting up educational displays can encourage passive learning, which is when student's take in information simply from looking around the room.
This is a great way to supplement your teaching and ensure your students properly take in any key facts and information. You can also find some themed number and letter resources, great for helping kids with their counting, reading and spelling.
You could also arrange the letters to create any kind of display you like, they're really versatile! Some of our resources are also editable and come with multiple versions - this is really useful if you need to adapt any resources to fit the specific needs of your class.
Christopher Colombus was one of many European explorers navigating new routes in the 15th Century - this is sometimes called the Age of Discovery. Columbus was actually looking for a trade route to the West Indies which is why he called the indigenous people 'Indians'.
Interestingly, more recently historians have found that an Icelandic Viking explorer Leif Eriksson sailed to the Canadian coast from his Norse colony in Greenland almost 500 years before Columbus landed in Central America.
As you'll find out in our fact files and Christopher Columbus Primary Resources, the explorer made four major voyages landing at the Bahamas, Trinidad, the coast of South America and Central America. He was trying to find a sea route to Asia.
The date of 1492 is important in world history as this marks Columbus' first landing on Caribbean islands on behalf of Spain and the start of European colonisation of North America. Another Italian explorer John Cabot was the first to land on the North American coast. The first colony would be established a century later in 1607, by puritans on the East Coast.
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