James Cook Study

Learn all about James Cook and his three expeditions where he found and mapped New Zealand and the east coast of Australia with this fun James Cook Study. 

James Cook Study

Check out the list of materials that we use with these printables.

With this huge James Cook study, children will learn all about this famous explorer who travelled to many different places all over the world. With over 45 pages, there are a variety of different types of activities, worksheets, information pages, research pages, black and white pages and more.

Information Pages

The information pages include:

• James Cook Early Life and Marriage
• First Voyage of James Cook
• The Second Voyage of James Cook
• Third Voyage of James Cook
• Map of the three voyages 
• Rules on the Ship
• Joseph Banks
• Sydney Parkinson
• Red-Tailed Tropicbird
• Kangaroo

Activity Pages

The written activities which include notebooking pages, worksheets and research activities include:

• What I Know
• What I want to Know
• What I have Learned
• Questions about the early life and marriage of James Cook
• Questions about the three voyages that Cook took
• Multiple choice quiz about Cook’s third voyage, Banks and Parkinson
• A page to list 3 questions that you would ask
• James Cook as a role model
• Biography Report
• Notebooking Pages
• Simple book for children to create
• Timeline with a cut and paste activity
• Mapping Activity
• Vocabulary page
• Talking about emotions from events that happened
• Word Search

 

This pack includes colour pages, black and white versions of nearly all the pages, as well as answer pages for a majority of the pages.

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