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The Tudors: Tudor Exploration
If you've just covered the Tudor kings and queens, you'll love this presentation describing Tudor exploration. It covers the Tudor navy, ships, explorers, and reasons for exploration. The slide show also includes rich images,...
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Discoverers and Explorers
In this discoverers and explorers worksheet, students read short paragraphs about Christopher Columbus, Magellan, Sir Francis Drake and Walter Raleigh.
NOAA
Ocean Exploration
Sea explorers and scientists have found that because of temperatures being two to three degrees Celsius at the bottom of the ocean, most animals are lethargic in order to conserve energy. In this web quest, pairs of learners read about...
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Early North Carolina Exploration (warm-up activity)
Eighth graders focus on the European perspective of exploration and findings along the North Carolina coast.
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The Age of Exploration
The Age of Exploration provides a way for students to learn about various topics relating to geography, history, and science.
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North Carolina
In this North Carolina worksheet, students read about the early history of North Carolina and answer true and false questions about it. Students answer 10 true and false questions.
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Sir Walter Raleigh/guiana
Fordham University offers Sir Walter Raleigh's text entitled "The Discovery of Guiana." It is very specific and descriptive.
Luminarium
Luminarium: Sir Walter Raleigh
This site provides links to information on the English explorer Sir Walter Raleigh and the text of many of his works. His interesting biography comes from an Encyclopedia Britannica article dated 1910.
Walled Lake Consolidated Schools
Loon Lake Elementary: Explorers: Sir Walter Raleigh
A brief snapshot of the life and work of a seventeenth century English explorer, Sir Walter Raleigh.
Yale University
Avalon Project Yale Law School: Charter to Raleigh
Text of the Royal Charter to Sir Walter Raleigh (1584) signed by Queen Elizabeth I of England granting him lands and rights in the New World.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Sir Walter Raleigh
Sir Walter Raleigh or Ralegh (c. 1552 - 29 October 1618), was a famed English writer, poet, soldier, courtier and explorer. Raleigh was born to a Protestant family in Devon, the son of Walter Raleigh and Catherine Champernowne.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Sir Walter Raleigh
Sir Walter Raleigh or Ralegh[1] (c. 1552 - 29 October 1618), was a famed English writer, poet, soldier, courtier and explorer.
State Library of North Carolina
N Cpedia: John W. Shirley: Sir Ralph Lane
Lane is best known for being sent to the New World on a mission to establish a settlement on Roanoke Island, by order of Sir Walter Raleigh. Discover how successful his expedition was and other biographical data about the explorer.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Sir Walter Raleigh
A famed writer, poet, spy, and explorer.
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Walter Ralegh
This site provides links to information on the English explorer Sir Walter Raleigh and the text of many of his works. His interesting biography comes from an Ecyclopedia Britannica article dated 1910.
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Portrait: Sir Walter Raleigh
John Davis, explorer of the new world. Provided is a summary of his voyages and primary source accounts of Cabot's voyages.
University of Groningen
American History: Essays: Europe's North South Conflicts Reach the Americas
An essay detailing early English and French exploration and settlement in the New World to challenge Spanish control.