Explorers+Unit

__** EXPLORER LIST FOR RESEARCH ACTIVITY **__

Sir Humphrey Gilbert James Cook Sir Francis Drake Martin Frobisher Henry Hudson Jacques Cartier Samuel de Champlain Marco Polo Christopher Columbus Ferdinand Magellan Hernando de Cortes The Vikings Vasco de Gama Henry the Navigator ||  || Vitus Bering Francisco Vasquez de Coronado Estevanico (Estéban) Rene de LaSalle Juan Ponce de Leon Francisco Pizarro Hernando de Soto Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca Giovanni Da Verrazzano Amerigo Vespucci Bartholomeu Dias Vasco Nunez de Balboa Pedro Cabral Juan Cabrillo ||
 * John Cabot

List of Resources for Explorer Research Activity
Many of the resources listed below are on individual explorers. I suggest that you check all sources not dedicated to one individual as well as checking out the sources dedicated solely to your explorer. Many of the sites on all explorers will give you a good view into your subject. Also, please do a search using an accepted search engine.

There is also a great site which you may visit that will lead you to create a very complete research project based on your explorer. The site is called [|Biography Maker]. The original resource list for this activity has been greatly reduced. The links below were viable at the time I reviewed the sites. Please report any broken links.
 * 1) [|European Explorers in the "New World"]
 * 2) [|Explorers Resource Page for Teachers]
 * 3) [|The Age of Explorers]
 * 4) [|Discoverer's Web]
 * 5) [|Discoverers by the Alphabet]
 * 6) [|Mariner's Museum: The Age of Exploration]
 * 7) [|Viking Explorers]
 * 8) [|Project Leif 2000]
 * 9) [|Erik the Red's Saga]
 * 10) [|Viking Discoverers]
 * 11) [|1492 Exhibit]
 * 12) [|The Columbus Navigation Homepage]
 * 13) [|Columbus's Ships]
 * 14) [|Columbus MythBusters]
 * 15) [|Sir Francis Drake]
 * 16) [|Drake]
 * 17) [|Francis Drake: The Voyage]
 * 18) [|Who was John Cabot]
 * 19) [|John Cabot]
 * 20) [|Half Moon Replica]
 * 21) [|Henry Hudson Explorer of the Hudson River]
 * 22) [|Ferdinand Magellan, the Greatest Voyager of Them All]
 * 23) [|Vitus Bering]
 * 24) [|Francisco Vásquez de Coronado]
 * 25) [|Map of Coronado's Journey]
 * 26) [|Coronado]
 * 27) [|LaSalle]
 * 28) [|Samuel Champlain]
 * 29) [|Champlain's 1607 Map]
 * 30) [|Jacques Cartier]
 * 31) [|de Soto]
 * 32) [|Spanish Exploration and Conquest]
 * 33) [|Hernando de Soto]
 * 34) [|James Cook]
 * 35) [|An Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico]
 * 36) [|The Search for Inca Gold]
 * 37) [|Marco Polo]
 * 38) [|Marco Polo]
 * 39) [|Giovanni da Verrazzano]
 * 40) [|Cabeza de Vaca]

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