Center of Science and Industry
Cosi Columbus: Weight for It!
Science experiment that demonstrates how balances work. Includes full list of materials, procedures, and scientific explanation of how to compare the weight of different objects.
Center of Science and Industry
Cosi Columbus: Coffee Filter Rainbows
Science experiment that demonstrates chromotography. Includes full list of materials, procedures, and scientific explanation of what happens with different colors when they are soaked with water.
Center of Science and Industry
Cosi Columbus: Hover Cup
Science experiment in which you make a hovercraft, a machine that uses compressed air to do work, from a paper cup. Includes full list of materials, procedures, and scientific explanation of how air flow can minimize friction and cause...
Center of Science and Industry
Cosi Columbus: Clues About Clouds
Science experiment that simulates how clouds are formed. Includes full list of materials, procedures, and scientific explanation of what must happen in the atmosphere for cloud formation to occur.
Center of Science and Industry
Cosi Columbus: Catapult
Science experiment that demonstrates how energy is transferred. Includes full list of materials, procedures, and scientific explanation of how the tension in the catapult causes an object to travel far.
Center of Science and Industry
Cosi Columbus: Can You Stand the Pressure
Science experiment that demonstrates the four states or phases of matter: solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. Includes full list of materials, procedures, and scientific explanation of how you change water from a liquid state to a gaseous...
Ministry of Education and Employment of Spain
Si Spain: The Discovery of America
This resource describes the political events that preceded the Spanish to support efforts by Christopher Columbus to head west across the Atlantic.
Digital History
Digital History: European Commercial and Financial Expansion
An interesting look at the support for Portuguese exploration by the bankers of Germany and Italy. See how Christopher Columbus' desires for riches was stoked by Portuguese trading posts in the Atlantic.
University of Maryland
Early Americas Digital Archive: Journal
The journal written by Christopher Columbus on his first voyage.
Curated OER
Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Illinois: Columbus Park
Magnum Opus of landscape architect Jens Jensen.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Christopher Columbus
(1451-1506) Italian mariner and navigator. Discovered route to the Americas while in search of the Indies
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Christopher Columbus
(1451-1506) Italian mariner and navigator. Discovered route to the Americas while in search of the Indies
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Christopher Columbus
Famous explorer and trader who reached the Americas in 1492.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Christopher Columbus
(1451-1506) Spanish explorer
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Christopher Columbus
Famous explorer and trader who reached the Americas in 1492.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Christopher Columbus
(1446-1506) Made the "discovery" of the New World in 1492.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Christopher Columbus
(1451-1506) Famous for his voyage to the New World in 1492.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Christopher Columbus
An Italian explorer whose voyages across the Atlantic Ocean led to general European awareness of the American continents.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Christopher Columbus
An Italian explorer who crossed the Atlantic Ocean and landed in the American continents.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Christopher Columbus
(1451-1506) Italian mariner and navigator. Discovered route to the Americas while in search of the Indies
Library of Congress
Loc: American Treasures of the Library of Congress: Columbus's Three Voyages
View one of the top treasures in the Library of Congress, the parchment on which is written the earliest description of Columbus's first three voyages to the New World.
The Washington Post
Ancient Cahokia: Metropolitan Life on the Mississippi
This article from the Washington Post gives a great description of Cahokia, one of the largest cities in the world before Columbus' contact with the New World. Read about how the great mounds were made, the trade networks established,...
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Federal Reserve Bank of Boston: Coins & Currency [Pdf]
Eleven-page file highlighting the history of American currency, from Columbus to the American Revolution to the Information Age. Requires Adobe Reader. [PDF]
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