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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