Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Explorers
Do you know who Afonso de Albuquerque was? Do you know where Robert de LaSalle was from or where Jacques Cartier sailed? Enchanted Learning's A-to-Z list of explorers lets you browse through a large collection of biographical notes on...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Exploring Explorers
Students will create a video in talk-show format about explorers from the 15th-17th centuries. They will utilize books, the Alabama Virtual Library, and the Internet for reference. Groups of students will answer who, what, when, where,...
Ducksters
Ducksters: Biography: Explorers
Learn about the adventures of famous explorers including Sacagawea, Lewis and Clark, Marco Polo, Sir Edmund Hillary and Ferdinand Magellan
Success Link
Success Link: Explorer Poetry Booklet
After a study of explorers in the Americas, students write poetry to show what they know about individual explorers. This lesson plan gives guidelines, ways to adapt the lesson, a graphic organizer, and scoring guide.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Early American Explorers
During this project-based instructional activity, students will become detectives looking for information about early American explorers. Students will have the opportunity to navigate the Internet to locate important facts about these...
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Read Works: Explorers [Pdf]
Students read about explorer Ferdinand Magellan and his crew as they attempted to circumnavigate the globe. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Walled Lake Consolidated Schools
Loon Lake Elementary: Explorers: Sir John Hawkins
A brief snapshot of the life and work of sixteenth century explorer and English mariner, Sir John Hawkins.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Native Cultures vs. Explorers in World Court
This lesson represents the end result of a project-based, hands-on unit in which children represent a culture they've researched in a World Court Hearing against the explorers they encountered.
British Library
British Library: The Search for the Northwest Passage
Detailed third grade lessons help students understand what skills and knowledge were required in order to become an explorer. Includes specific lessons on John Cabot, Jacques Cartier, and Henry Hudson.
NASA
Nasa: 21st Century Explorer: What Would You Find on the Moon's Surface?
This article explains regolith on the moon: what it is, what it's made of, and how scientists could use it in future moon expeditions.
NASA
Nasa: 1nd Century Explorer: How Would Your Body Change in Space?
This article explores the changes an astronaut's body goes through in space. Also find the answer to many other fascinating questions people have about space travel.
NASA
Nasa: 21th Century Explorer: Why Do We Want to Study and Travel to Mars?
This article answers some of the most common questions about Mars: Why is it red? Is there water on Mars? What else have scientists discovered from spacecraft that have landed there? Also, visitors can follow links to learn more about...
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Seismic Explorer
Explore the pattern of earthquakes on Earth, including magnitude, depth, location, and frequency.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Renaissance Explorers
Overview of the motives behind the exploration of the "new world" during the Renaissance. Discusses the trading that took place between the "new world" and Europe and various riches offered in Mexico and Latin America.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Explorers for Kids: Sir Edmund Hillary
Explore the biography and life of explorer Sir Edmund Hillary on this website. Learn about the first man to climb Mount Everest.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Explorers for Kids: Christopher Columbus
Learn about the biography and life of explorer Christopher Columbus on this site. Explore how he discovered the Americas for Spain.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Explorers for Kids: Henry Hudson
The biography and life of explorer Henry Hudson can be found on this website. Read about how he explored North America searching for the Northwest Passage.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Explorers for Kids: Roald Amundsen
Kids learn about the biography and life of explorer Roald Amundsen. learn about the journey of the first man to the South Pole.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Explorers for Kids: Zheng He
Kids learn about the biography and life of Chinese explorer Zheng He. Commander of giant treasure ships.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Explorers for Kids: Lewis and Clark
Kids learn about the biography and life of explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on this site. Investigate how they explored the wild west of America.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Explorers for Kids: Neil Armstrong
On this site explore, the biography and life of explorer and astronaut Neil Armstrong.
Cengage Learning
Literature of Discovery and Exploration
Teaching approach that examines the writings of European New World explorers from the late 1400s through the 1600s. Includes Christopher Columbus, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, Rene Goulaine de Laudonniere, Pedro Menendez de Aviles, Fray...
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Lewis and Clark, American Explorers
A good, brief biography of Lewis and Clark, and a good description of their explorations. Contains a printable map and a cloze (fill in the blank) activity.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Global Climate Change: Research Explorer
Explore scientific data relating to the atmosphere, oceans, areas covered by ice, and living organisms in all these domains. Interpret past and present climate data to predict future climate change and its possible effects.
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