exploration

Everyday

1. Exploration is travelling to and looking around a place to find out what is there, especially a place nobody knows well. tree →
2. Exploration is also looking closely at an idea or question to learn more. tree →
3. (medicine) An exploration can be a doctor examining part of the body. tree →

In the lessons

History lessons (Age of Exploration, polar exploration, space exploration), science investigations, and stories of adventure. Phrases: space exploration, voyage of exploration, ocean exploration.

Examples

• Space exploration has taken people to the Moon. tree →
• The children went on an exploration of the woods. tree →
• The class did an exploration of how magnets work. tree →
• Ocean exploration finds new creatures every year. tree →
• The Age of Exploration changed maps of the world. tree →
• Polar exploration was cold and dangerous. tree →

Note

Countable and uncountable. Explorers of the past often met people who already lived in the places «discovered», so «discovered» can be one-sided. Spelling: explore drops the e: exploration.