Texas History Age of Contact Exploration PowerPoint Lesson

This engaging Age of Contact PowerPoint is TEKS-based and will make your unit of Spanish exploration in Texas history more memorable. This PowerPoint includes learning intentions, unit vocabulary terms, discussion prompts, video links, cooperative learning activities, and covers Columbus, Pineda, Cabeza de Vaca, Coronado, and La Salle. This is the perfect digital presentation to help your students master the Age of Exploration in Texas History!

• 7.1.A identify the major eras in Texas history, describe their defining characteristics, and explain why historians divide the past into eras, including; Age of Contact
• 7.1.C explain the significance of the following dates: 1519, mapping of the Texas coast
• 7.2.B identify important individuals, events, and issues related to European exploration of Texas such as Alonso Álvarez de Pineda, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and his writings, the search for gold, and the conflicting territorial claims between France and Spain

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