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Age of Exploration

Page history last edited by Marianne Dilworth 9 years, 6 months ago

Sites:

 

The Mariners' Museum 2014

 

The Mariners' Museum Archive

 

Biography.com

 

Discovery Education

 

Scribble Maps

 

 

Explorers

 

Vasco Núñez de Balboa

 

Vasco Núñez de Balboa -  Biography.com 

 

Vasco Núñez de Balboa: Spanish Conquistador and Explorer - Enchanted Learning

 

Vasco Núñez de Balboa - The Mariners' Museum 2014

 

Vasco Núñez de Balboa - The Mariners' Museum

 

 

John Cabot

 

John Cabot - Biography.com

 

John Cabot: Explorer - Enchanted Learning

 

Giovanni Caboto - The Mariners' Museum

 

 

Pedro Alvarez Cabral

 

Pedro Alvares Cabral - The Mariners' Museum

 

Pedro Álvares Cabral: Portuguese Explorer - Enchanted Learning

 

Pedro Alvares Cabral - Encyclopedia.com

 

 

Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo

 

Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo - The Mariners' Museum

 

Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo - San Diego History Center

 

Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo - National Park Service

 

Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo - Enchanted Learning

 

 

Jacques Cartier

 

Jacques Cartier - Biography.com

 

Jacques Cartier - The Mariners' Museum 2014

 

Jacques Cartier - The Mariners' Museum

 

Jacques Cartier - Canadian Museum of History

 

 

Samuel de Champlain

 

Samuel de Champlain Biography - Biography.com

 

Samuel de Champlain: Explorer - Enchanted Learning

 

Samuel de Champlain - The Mariners' Museum 2014

 

Samuel de Champlain 1604-1616  - Canadian Museum of History

 

 

Christopher Columbus  

 

Christopher Columbus Biography  - Biography.com

 

Christopher Columbus - The Mariners' Museum 2014

 

Christopher Columbus - The Mariners' Museum

 

Christopher Columbus - History.com

 

Christopher Columbus: Explorer - Enchanted Learning

 

 

James Cook

 

James Cook - Biography.com

 

James Cook - The Mariners' Museum 2014

 

James Cook: British Explorer - Enchanted Learning

 

James Cook - BBC

 

 

Francisco Vásquez de Coronado

 

Francisco Vasquez de Coronado - PBS The West

 

Francisco Vasquez de Coronado Biography - Biography.com

 

Francisco Vasquez de Coronado - The Mariners' Museum 2014

 

Francisco Vasquez de Coronado - History.com

 

Francisco Vasquez de Coronado: Explorer - Enchanted Learning

 

Francisco Vasquez de Coronado Biography for Kids - Mr. Nussbaum

 

Francisco Vasquez de Coranado - Desert USA

 

 

Hernando Cortes

 

Hernando Cortes - Biography.com

 

Hernando Cortes - The Mariners' Museum 2014

 

Hernando Cortes - BBC

 

Hernando Cortes in Mexico - PBS

 

 

Bartolomeu Dias

 

Bartolomeu Dias - Biography.com

 

Bartolomeu Dias - The Mariners' Museum 2014

 

Bartolomeu Dias - South Africa History Online

 

 

Francis Drake

 

Francis Drake Biography - Biography.com

 

Francis Drake - The Mariners' Museum 2014

 

Francis Drake: Explorer - Enchanted Learning

 

Sir Francis Drake - Royal Museum Greenwich

 

 

Vasco da Gama

 

Vasco da Gama Biography   - Biography.com

 

Vasco da Gama: Explorer - Enchanted Learning

 

Vasco da Gama - The Mariners' Museum 2014

 

Vasco da Gama - History.com

 

Vasco da Gama - BBC

 

 

Henry Hudson

 

Henry Hudson Biography - Biography.com

 

Henry Hudson - The Mariners' Museum 2014

 

Henry Hudson - History.com

 

 

Francisco Pizarro

 

Francisco Pizarro Biography - Biography.com

 

Francisco Pizarro - The Mariners' Museum 2104

 

Francisco Pizarro - The Mariners' Museum

 

Francisco Pizarro - History.com

 

Francisco Pizarro: Explorer - Enchanted Learning

 

 

Juan Ponce de Leon

 

Juan Ponce de León Biography - Biography.com

 

Ponce de León : Florida's First Spanish Explorer - Explore Florida

 

Juan Ponce de Leon: Explorer - Enchanted Learning

 

Juan Ponce de Leon - The Mariners' Museum

 

Juan Ponce de Leon - History.com

 

 

Ferdinand Magellan

 

 

Ferdinand Magellan Biography - Biography.com

 

Ferdinand Magellan - The Mariners' Museum 2014

 

Ferdinand Magellan: World Explorer - Enchanted Learning

 

 

Walter Raleigh

 

Walter Raleigh Biography - Biography.com

 

Walter Raleigh - The Mariners' Museum 2014

 

Walter Raleigh - Enchanted Learning

 

Walter Raleigh - BBC

 

 

Hernando de Soto  

 

Hernando de Soto Biography - Biography.com

 

Hernando de Soto - History.com

 

Hernando de Soto - The Mariners' Museum 2014

 

Hernando de Soto: Explorer - Enchanted Learning

 

Hernando de Soto Biography for Kids - Mr. Nussbaum

 

 

Giovanni da Verrazzano

 

Giovanni da Verrazzano - Biography.com

 

Giovanni da Verrazzano - The Mariners' Museum 2014

 

Giovanni da Verrazzano - The Mariners' Museum

 

Giovanni da Verrazzano Biography for Kids - Mr. Nussbaum

 

Giovanni da Verrazzano - Italian Historical Society

 

Giovanni da Verrazzano: Letter to King Francis 1 - National Humanities Center

 

 

Amerigo Vespucci

 

Amerigo Vespucci Biography - Biography.com

 

Amerigo Vespucci - Enchanted Learning

 

Amerigo Vespucci - The Mariners' Museum 2014

 

Americo Vespucci - The Mariners' Museum

 

Amerigo Vespucci - History.com

 

 

Zheng He (formerly romanized as Cheng Ho)   

 

Zheng He - The Mariners' Museum 2014

 

Zheng He - The Mariners' Museum

 

Zheng He, Ming China's Great Admiral  - Asian History about.com

 

Zheng He  - Fact Monster 

 

The Admiral Zheng He - Saudi Aramco World 

 

 

 

Johann Schiltberger

Diogo de Azambuja

Pero Vaz de Caminha

Niccolo Da Conti

Christopher Newport

Joao Fernandes Lavrador

Joao da Nova

Jeanne Baret - 1740

 

 

 

History - Social Science Standard 5.2

  

5.2 Students trace the routes of early explorers and describe the early explorations of the Americas.

  

Exploration & Trade: Become a Spice Trader

 

1492: An Ongoing Voyage - this online exhibit is from the Library of Congress.

 

"The Meaning of America" Letter from Columbus 1493

 

 

 

Benchmarks

 

1. Describe the entrepreneurial characteristic of early explorers (e.g., Christopher Columbus, Francisco Vásquez de Coronado) and the technological developments that made sea exploration by latitude and longitude possible (e.g., compass, sextant, astrolabe, seaworthy ships, chronometers, gunpowder).

 

2. Explain the aims, obstacles, and the accomplishments of the explorers, sponsors, and leaders of key European expeditions and the reasons Europeans chose to explore and colonize the world (e.g., the Spanish Reconquista, the Protestant Reformation, the Counter Reformation).

 

3. Trace the routes of the major land explorers of the United States, the distances traveled by explorers, and the Atlantic trade routes that linked Africa, the West Indies, the British colonies, and Europe.

 

4. Locate on maps of North and South America land claimed by Spain, France, England, Portugal, the Netherlands, Sweden,and Russia.

 

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