Starter quiz
- A seafarer explores the...
- land
- air
- sea ✓
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- Which of these is a tool for navigating ships?
- compass ✓
- lead line
- canoe
- longboat
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- What is rigging for?
- catching the wind
- steering the ship
- moving the sails ✓
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- Which of these is a tool for measuring how deep water is?
- flag
- canoe
- lead line ✓
- compass
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- Which continent is to the east of Europe?
- Asia ✓
- China
- America
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- What tool can show you if you are travelling north, south, east or west?
- calculator
- compass ✓
- rudder
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Exit quiz
- William Adams was the first English person to go to...
- Spain
- Scotland
- Japan ✓
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- True or false? All 5 ships in Williams Adams' group arrived to Japan.
- True
- False ✓
- Sailors got sick because they didn't have enough...
- hot drinks
- hats
- fruits and vegetables ✓
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- Match the oceans to the correct descriptions.
- Atlantic Ocean⇔the ocean between Europe and the Americas ✓
- Pacific Ocean⇔the ocean between the Americas and Asia ✓
- What happened in the Pacific Ocean?
- one ship was sunk ✓
- one ship went the wrong way
- one ship turned around
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- How long did William Adams' journey to Japan take?
- 10 years
- 6 years
- 2 years ✓
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Key learning points
- William Adams was an English sailor who went on many long voyages about 200 years after Zheng He.
- Adams wanted to follow in the footsteps of other explorers and travel to Asia.
- Adams sailed across the Atlantic to the Americas with five ships, before crossing the Pacific with only two.
- On the voyage a huge storm sunk one of Adam's boats and he arrived in Japan with just one boat and a very sickly crew.
- Adam's voyage took over two years and he chose to stay in Japan, working with a local leader to build ships.
Common misconception
When looking at a 2D map of the world, pupils may think that there are two Pacific oceans.
The Pacific Ocean is the biggest ocean on earth. We can see on a globe that it is one large body of water between the Americas and Asia.
Keywords
Atlantic ocean - the Atlantic Ocean is the ocean between Europe and the Americas
Americas - the Americas are the continents of North and South America
Asia - the continent to the east of Europe is called Asia
Pacific ocean - the Pacific Ocean is the ocean between the Americas and Asia
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