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FREE App: European Exploration – The Age of Discovery

European Exploration The Age of Discovery

European Exploration: The Age of Discovery is a FREE app my son shared with me a while ago.  They played at school.  It is a simulation or a role-playing game like Oregon Trail.

European Exploration Free App

The app lets kids role-play as 15th Century captains responsible for exploring the world. The goal of the game is to discover the entire New World. In the game, kids are in charge of everything from hiring a crew, to building the ships, to planning the trip, to manage the finances of their expeditions.  Through play, kids gain historical knowledge about various locations around the world.
While choosing explorers for the crew, kids are presented with historical information about the explorers that are available to lead expeditions, such as Giovanni da Verrazano, Christopher Columbus, and Juan Ponce de Leon.  Each explorer has a grade based on his navigation, cartography, and ship-keeping skills. Each explorer also has a different salary, and this goes into budgeting and finance planning of the game.

When ships and crew are ready, kids have to draw expedition maps and then send out their explorers. They will bring money back if the expedition is successful, they can then manage more expeditions and even be able to send out several ships simultaneously.

iGameMom Comments:

Like other simulation games, I believe, kids can learn a lot through playing this game.  They learn what it takes to have a successful expedition.  They learn how to build a team, how to manage budget, and how to solve problems on the spot.

As parents and educators, we can help kids learn more beyond the game.  Some ideas: research the historical explorers, and compare different explorers on their strengths and weakness.

European Exploration – The Age of Discovery works on iPad.  It is FREE on App Store.

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European Exploration: The Age of Discovery

The Oregon Trail Free App - play games to learn history

 
Another simulation game with a historical perspective is The Oregon Trail. You can read more about it by clicking the picture below.

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  • Yvette Rego

    This is an AWESOME game that I have been using in my fourth grade Social Studies class for years. Unfortunately, it is no longer available to download onto ipads and I have not yet found anything similar that can be used on chromebooks, laptops, or macs. Please let me know if you find another 2D world exploration game based on historical people and places

  • Michelle

    Hello. I cannot find the age of discovery in the App Store. Is it available in America?

    • I am not able to find it neither. Looks like it is taken off from the App Store.

  • Ticia

    Darn just noticed it’s for ipad, don’t have one 🙁

  • Ticia

    This does look great, thanks for sharing it.

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