CHOOSE YOUR TEAM
Each team has a different argument. Pick the one you believe — or the one you want to challenge yourself with.
YOUR CHALLENGE
MAKE YOUR CASE
You’re a museum curator. A new exhibition called “WHO DISCOVERED AMERICA?” is opening. You’ve been asked to create one exhibit card — a single panel that visitors will read.
Your card must include:
✦Your team name
✦Your answer to the question: Fact or Fiction?
✦ONE piece of evidence from the series that supports your argument
✦ONE crack — something that could weaken your argument
✦A title for your exhibit that would make someone stop and read it
Post your exhibit card on the board below.
THE EXHIBITION
Read what other students have written. Do any of them change your mind?
One last time.
The question you were asked in Episode 1.
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
DISCOVERED AMERICA
FACT OR FICTION?
WHAT YOU LEARNED
This series was never really about Columbus.
It was about how to think.
How to read a source and ask: who wrote this, and why?
How to look at evidence and ask: what’s missing?
How to hear a claim and ask: says who?
These are the skills that matter — not just in history, but everywhere.
FACT OR FICTION ISN’T ALWAYS
THE RIGHT QUESTION.
SOMETIMES THE RIGHT QUESTION IS:
WHO DECIDED?
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