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1. 1492:
AN ONGOING VOYAGE
http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/1492.exhibit/Intro.html An online Library of Congress exhibit with six sections:
What Came to Be Called “America”; The Mediterranean World; Christopher
Columbus: Man and Myth; Inventing America; Europe Claims America; and Epilogue.
Excellent 2.
ADVENTURE
INTO THE UNKNOWN: A WEBQUEST ON THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION
NEW!! http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/as/education/projects/webquests/lewisclark/t-index.htm A webquest for 5th grade
students in which teams of students “join” the Lewis and Clark Expedition
taking on the roles of Indian affairs expert, botanist, zoologist, and
topographer. Excellent 3.
THE AGE OF EXPLORATION ONLINE CURRICULUM GUIDE – THE MARINER’S MUSEUM
http://www.mariner.org/age/menu.html An online curriculum guide to the Age of Exploration from
the Ancient World to the 19th century. Each chapter discusses the major explorations.
There are timelines, vocabulary and biographies of the great explorers.
The activities section for Teachers and Students is extensive.
Outstanding. Excellent 4.
THE
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY – CONGO EXPEDITION – MAY 1909 TO NOVEMBER
1915
NEW!! A detailed multimedia account of the
Congo Expedition from 1909 to 1915 in Africa. Includes photographs, field notebooks, the indigenous people
of the region, maps and much more. Excellent
http://www.coe.ilstu.edu/jabraun/students/holt/ A webquest for 5th and 6th graders in which students form a jury in a trial to determine whether Christopher Columbus was a “fraudulent historical figure”. Sections: FAQ-Questions You’ve Always Wanted to Know About Christopher Columbus; An Overview of the Christopher Columbus Court Hearing; Your Task, as the Jury; What Have You Learned?; and Resources. Excellent 6.
THE CONQUISTADORS – START THE ADVENTURE
http://www.pbs.org/opb/conquistadors/home.htm An Online Learning Adventure on the Conquistadors for 6-12
grades. Sections: Timeline of
Conquest (choose Events Timeline or Disease Timeline), Michael’s Journal
(journal of producer of series who followed the trail of the Conquistadors),
What Do You Think? (message forum-can read but not post), and Teacher’s Guide.
Excellent 7.
DISCOVERERS WEB
START
HERE!
http://www.win.tue.nl/cs/fm/engels/discovery/index.html Links to a massive amount of information on explorers from
the Ancient World to the 20th century and from North America to
Antarctica to the Pacific islands. Includes
maps, illustrations, photos, and more. Note that not all sites are in English.
(I found no dead links from a sample of 20)
Some of the links are to student papers.
Excellent 8.
DISCOVERING
LEWIS AND CLARK
NEW!! Focuses on Persistent Issues, Core
Values and Changing Visions. An
enormous site with 1,400 pages including a 19-part synopsis of the expedition by
historian Harry Fritz including selections from the journals, photographs, maps,
animated graphics, moving pictures and sound files.
Outstanding. Excellent 9. EDUCATION
WORLD – THE GREAT EXPLORERS!
NEW!! http://www.education-world.com/a_special/millenium_02.shtml Education World’s look at the Great Explorers of the Millennium. Sections: Lessons of the Explorers, Exploring the World-Virtually, A New Twist on Explorers, and Great Sites for Teaching About Explorers. Excellent 10. EMPIRE OF THE BAY
http://www.pbs.org/empireofthebay/ Companion web site for the PBS program Empire
of the Bay about the bold explorers of the Hudson Bay Company who “tamed a
wilderness” as they set up merchant routes.
Includes: Empire
of the Bay Transcript; Maps – Paths of the Explorers; Forum – Ask
the Experts; Profiles- Who Were the Pathfinders?; Quiz – Test Your Knowledge;
and a Timeline. Excellent
http://history.evansville.net/explorat.html A huge gateway site on the exploration of North America.
Sections: Introduction, History (People, Places, Events, Resources) and Art (Art
and Architecture, Literature and Drama, Music and Dance, Daily Life and
Culture). Excellent 12.
EXPLORERS
http://eduscapes.com/42explore/explorers.htm
A gateway site on explorers with links to web sites on
explorers, activities, web quests and sites by kids for kids.
Excellent 13.
EXPLORERS
http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/web/explorer.html A gateway site with links to explorers and expeditions,
lesson plans, activities, and more. Excellent 14.
EXPLORERS – ACTIVITIES AND QUIZZES
http://www.mce.k12tn.net/explorers/explorers_start.htm Lists explorers or groups of explorers with a brief essay
on each. Each has several activities and a quiz. Includes a multiple choice quiz on all the explorers plus
Hangman and Challenge games. Excellent 15.
HENRY HUDSON – 17TH CENTURY EXPLORER
http://www.ianchadwick.com/hudson/ A detailed collection of information on English explorer
and mariner Henry Hudson. Sections:
Early Years, First Voyage 1607, Second Voyage 1608, Third Voyage 1609, Fourth
Voyage 1610, Aftermath, Family Tree, Short Story, and links.
Excellent 16. KIDS
ONLINE RESOURCES
NEW!!
http://www.kidsolr.com/history/page2.html Extensive list of links on explorers. Sections: Explorers, Vikings, The English and Conquistadors. Excellent 17.
MARCO POLO AND KORCULA
http://www.korcula.net/mpolo/index.html An online book describing the travels of Marco Polo through
his work Million.
Note: Although people think of Marco Polo as Italian, he was actually
born on Korcula, an island in what is now Croatia. This
book goes into detail about Polo’s travels.
Excellent 18.
SPANISH EXPLORATION OF NATIVE AMERICA
NEW
NAME!
http://www.vaca.com/index.html Details the exploration and conquest of Native America by
De Soto, DeVaca, and Coronado by following the trails their explorations took.
Includes a PDF format book detailing the conquest of Native America.
Includes maps, illustrations, and more.
Excellent
http://www.sfusd.edu/schwww/sch618/Ibn_Battuta/Ibn_Battuta_Rihla.html An account of the travels of the little-known 14th
century explorer Ibn Battuta. Includes
photos, illustrations, and maps. Each
section includes links to additional information. Outstanding. Excellent 20.
VIKING EXPLORATION AND SETTLEMENT
NEW!!
http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/vikingexplor.htm Long before Columbus, Viking
explorers landed and established settlements in Greenland and Vinland (North
America). Sections: Timeline of
Viking Events in Greenland, Viking Expansion, Leifur Eiriksson’s Heritage of
Discovery, Did 14th Century Scandinavians Visit Midwestern North
America?, Viking Explorers, Icelanders Discover Greenland and Iceland, and Map
Showing Viking Exploration Routes in Europe.
Excellent 21.
VIRTUAL MUSEUM OF NEW FRANCE
http://www.civilization.ca/vmnf/vmnfe.asp A virtual museum of New France in Canada, the French colony
in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Includes links to French explorers of the “new” world.
A New France ABC includes photos of objects used by the colonists in
daily life, their use and the context in which they were used.
Also includes a Photographic Exploration of Canada with Malak which
includes a large number of photos of the areas the French colonized. Follow the quick links for a lot more information.
Excellent 22.
VOYAGE OF DOOM
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lasalle/ Companion site to the Nova program “ Voyage of Doom”
which chronicles the discovery and excavation of French explorer Robert Cavalier
Sieur de La Salle’s ship, the Belle, which sank off the coast of Texas in
1688. The ship was discovered at
the bottom of the bay and excavated. Sections: Stories in the Timber, Explore
the Shipwreck, Who Owns Lost Ships?, Buoyancy Brainteasers and Teacher’s
Guide, Resources, Transcript and more. Excellent 23.
VOYAGE OF EXPLORATION – DISCOVERING NEW HORIZONS – A THINKQUEST SITE
http://library.thinkquest.org/C001692/ A Thinkquest site on exploration.
Sections: Home World, Great Explorers (with a quiz for each), Expeditions
(with quizzes), Navigation (how they did it), New Horizons (the future), Why
Explore? (why they did it) and Teacher World (score tracking and activities).
Excellent 24.
ZOOM EXPLORERS
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/ Web site for elementary students on explorers.
Search alphabetically, by region, or by century.
Gives a brief description of the explorer and his expedition.
Includes maps showing some of their routes and illustrations where
portraits are available. Excellent
25.
CAPTAIN COOK – VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY
NEW!!
http://www.hunterian.gla.ac.uk/museum/cook/cook.html Three interactive maps show Cook’s
voyages of discovery. Click on the
darkened areas to see artifacts Cook collected from that region.
Very Good 26.
COMING TO THE AMERICAS – LESSON
PLAN
NEW!!
http://www.successlink.org/great/g1070.html A project for 6th grade
students in which student take on the role of early explorers as they search for
a route to Asia. Students must
create a map of their voyage, a drawing of their ship and quotations from the
explorer. Very Good 27.
ENDEAVOUR
http://www.barkendeavour.com.au/ James Cook’s bark Endeavor has been re-created and sails
out of Australia. It is a three-masted
collier bark and has been re-created with great attention to authenticity.
It has already carried out a voyage around the world.
The site has details of the voyages, photos, captain and crew reports,
and much more. Very Good 28. EUROPEAN
EXPLORERS ELEMENTARY THEME PAGE
NEW!!
http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/explorer.htm Information on European explorers arranged by country. Includes links to European explorers in the “New World” and in New France. Very Good 29.
EXPLORERS THEME PAGE
http://www.cln.org/themes/explorers.html A gateway site with links to curricular resources for
information on explorers and instructional resources for lesson plans.
Very Good 30.
FORBIDDEN TERRITORY: STANLEY AND
LIVINGSTONE
NEW!!
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/97/lantern/ A magic lantern show on the
explorations of Stanley and Livingstone in Central Africa.
Very Good 31. JAMES COOK – VOYAGE OF THE ENDEAVOR 1768-1771 http://pacific.vita.org/pacific/cook/cook1.htm An account of the voyage of Captain James Cook in
1768-1771. Includes quotes and
maps. Very Good
Information on this African-American
who co-discovered the North Pole with Peary in 1909. Includes:
Peary’s Diary Published on the Internet, Henson Literature (free literature to
be downloaded on and by Henson), a Henson exhibit, a student presentation, a
Lowell Thomas 1939 interview with Henson, audio recording of Peary. (Note: This site addresses the controversy in which some
claimed that Henson did not co-discover the North Pole. Some strong opinions are expressed.) Very Good 33.
OPERATION PHIPS – ARCHEOLOGICAL RESCUE
http://www.mcc.gouv.qc.ca/pamu/champs/archeo/epaphips/wreck01.htm An account of the excavation of the Anse aux Bouleaux, a
ship from the fleet of Sir William Phips, which was sunk 1690 in the estuary of
the St. Lawrence River. This was part of the fleet that was sent to attack
Quebec in the war between France and Britain at the end of the 17th
century. Includes photos of the
excavation, artifacts and history. Very
Good
34.
THE AGE OF DISCOVERY – 1340-1600
NEW!!
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/shepherd/explorer_map_shepherd.jpg A detailed map showing the voyages of
English, French, Dutch, Spanish and Portuguese explorers.
Slow to load but worth a look. Good 35. AGE
OF EXPLORATION
NEW!!
http://www.howard.k12.md.us/lkms/webquest/Exploration/Explorers.html Links to information on explorers including: John Cabot, Jacques Cartier, Marco Polo, Sir Walter Raleigh and more. Students are to use the links to develop a report on the explorer they have chosen. Good 36. AUSTRALIAN
EXPLORERS
NEW!!
http://www.davidreilly.com/australian_explorers/ Information for elementary students on Australian explorers. Until the 18th century Australia was almost completely unknown to the Europeans and these explorers opened the continent to European settlement. Good 37.
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS: A CULINARY HISTORY
http://www.castellobanfi.com/features/story_3.html An article from Castello Banfi vineyard about the
provisions about Columbus’ voyages and foods they found in the “new”
world. Good 38.
THE DEATH OF MAGELLAN 1521
http://www.ibiscom.com/magellan.htm A brief account of the death of the explorer and mariner
Ferdinand Magellan in a battle with natives on an island in the Philippines.
An eyewitness account was written by a passenger.
Good 39.
DISCOVERY AND EXPLORATION
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/dsxphome.html An American Memory collection of maps and illustrations
documenting the discovery and exploration of the continents and their interiors
from the 15th to the 19th centuries.
See the List or use the Gallery View for thumbnails of the maps.
Good 40.
THE EUROPEAN VOYAGES OF EXPLORATION 1415-1650
http://www.campus.northpark.edu/history/WebChron/WestEurope/Voyages.html A timeline of European voyages of exploration with links to
short articles on some of the expeditions.
Good 41.
EXPLORER POEMS BY STUDENTS
NEW
URL!! http://www.kathimitchell.com/explpoe.htm Simple poems by elementary students on various explorers.
Use as a basis for students’ own poems.
Good 42.
EXPLORERS OF THE WORLD
http://www.bham.wednet.edu/explore.htm A web site for students on the kind of people who choose a
life of exploration. Covers
explorers of Land, Sea, Water, and Art. Good 43.
FRAY JUNIPERO SERRA
http://www.padreserra.org/serra.htm Chronicles the life of Father Junipero Serra, a Spanish
Franciscan friar who explored what was to become California and established
missions there. Good 44.
GASPAR DE PORTOLA – FIRST GOVERNOR
OF CALIFORNIA
NEW!!
http://portola-assoc.org/english/ingles2.htm An account of de Portola’s
expeditions to settle California and the Baja Peninsula (then considered part of
California). Good 45.
THE HALL OF SCIENCE AND EXPLORATION
NEW!!
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/halls/sci Interviews with 20th
century scientists and explorers. Explorers
include: Robert D. Ballard, Sylvia Earle, Sir Edmund Hillary and Donna Shirley.
Good 46.
LATITUDE- THE ART AND SCIENCE OF 15TH
CENTURY NAVIGATION
NEW!!
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~feegi/ Shows the tremendous importance of
the Portuguese advances in navigation that allowed explorers to determine their
position with greater accuracy. Good 47.
MONTEREY BAY AREA HISTORY
http://users.dedot.com/mchs/historymenu.html The first section of this site gives a history of the early
exploration of the California coast in the Monterey area.
Good
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/2/8/index-e.html Information from the National Library of Canada on
exploration in North America. Includes
an Introduction, Alphabetical List or Chronological Outline.
(Note: Start with Introduction, go back to Home page and then follow
either the Alphabetical List or Chronological Outline.)
Good 49.
SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN’S 1607 MAP http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trr009.html Considered an American Treasure, this is the original map
hand-drawn on vellum for presentation to the king of France.
It is one of the few maps of the period that was drawn up by de Champlain
himself showing his own explorations and calculations.
It covers the New England and Canadian coasts.
An enlargement increases it to full-screen size.
Good 50.
SHIPS OF DISCOVERY
NEW!!
http://www.shipsofdiscovery.org/ Information on how excavation of
shipwrecks is contributing to our understanding of the early explorers.
Sections: Columbus’ Lost Ships, Artifact Conservation, Shipwreck
Excavations Ancient Techniques, Experimental Archeology, Ancient Documents, and
Artifact Replicas. Click on Ships at the bottom to show a map of New World
Shipwrecks. Good 51.
THE SOTO EXPEDITION
NEW!!
http://www.archeologyinc.org/soto.html An account of the expedition of
Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto to explore and settle Florida.
Good 52. SOUTH-POLE.COM
NEW!!
http://www.south-pole.com/homepage.html Welcome
to the home page of South-Pole.com. This site is dedicated to the heroic
explorers of our polar regions and the surrounding islands. The tales of these
brave souls were often related in expedition mail sent home to anxious loved
ones and beneficiaries. Focusing
on the mail sent home from Antarctic expeditions, the site uses excerpts from
the explorers. Click on the names
of the explorers for in-depth articles about each one.
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