Explorers

All about Explorers -- check out this GREAT website

Books: Library Catalog - type in LAST NAME of explorer

Encyclopedias online:

• Groliers Encyclopedia Online - type in LAST NAME of explorer
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  • password = jaguars
• Answers.com

Google - put the full name of your explorer in quotation marks

Web pages/Internet sites
Search for your explorer at:

• Discoverers Web
  • Exploration is a Risky Business - how they died
• Explorers - Civilization Canada
  Cartier, Champlain, LaSalle, Marquette, Jolliet
• Explorers of the world - alphabetical list
• *Explorers on the Web - listing of links at Cybersleuthkids.com
• Zoom Explorers - very brief information, some with map

Cabot

• http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03126d.htm - New Advent Encyclopedia
• http://www.heritage.nf.ca/exploration/cabot.html
• http://www.win.tue.nl/cs/fm/engels/discovery/cabot.html Discoverers Web
• http://www.mariner.org/education/john-and-sebastian-cabot - Mariner's Museum
• http://www.matthew.co.uk/ - Matthew of Bristol - Cabot's ship replica

Cartier

• http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/explore/virtual-museum-of-new-france/the-explorers/jacques-cartier2
• http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03392b.htm - New Advent Encyclopedia
• http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/cartier.html -Discoverers Web

Champlain

• http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03567a.htm - New Advent Encyclopedia
• http://www.blupete.com/Hist/BiosNS/1600-00/Champlain.htm
• http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trr009.html - Champlain's map 1607

Coronado

• http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04379e.htm - New Advent Encyclopedia
• http://www.lsjunction.com/people/coronado.htm
• http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/a_c/coronado.htm
• http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/coronado.html Discoverers Web

Cortez, Cortes

• http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04397a.htm - New Advent Encyclopedia
• http://coloquio.com/famosos/cortes.html
• http://www.desertusa.com/mag98/sep/papr/coronado.html
• http://www.pbs.org/conquistadors/cortes/cortes_flat.html
• http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/eurvoya/aztec.html - Univ. Calgary -

Drake

• http://www.mariner.org/educationalad/ageofex/drake.php - Mariners Museum
• http://www.mcn.org/2/oseeler/drake.htm set of links

Hudson

• http://www.mariner.org/educationalad/ageofex/hudson.php - Mariners Museum
• http://www.ianchadwick.com/hudson/

Jolliet

• http://www.civilization.ca/vmnf/explor/explcd_e.html
• http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/jolmar.html - Discoverers Web
• http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08496a.htm - New Advent Encyclopedia

LaSalle

• http://www.civilisations.ca/vmnf/explor/lasal_e1.html
• http://www.lsjunction.com/people/lasalle.htm
• Short Biography - UTexasOnline - http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/LL/fla4.html
• Voyage of Doom - PBS on LaSalle's wrecked boat Belle http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lasalle/

Magellan

• http://www.mariner.org/educationalad/ageofex/magellan.php - Mariners Museum

Marquette

• http://www.civilization.ca/vmnf/explor/explcd_e.html
• http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/jolmar.html
• Short Biography - http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/nsh/marquette.htm

Ponce de Leon

• http://www.stamponhistory.com/people/deleon.html

Serra

• http://www.sandiegohistory.org/bio/serra/serra.htm
• http://www.catholic-church.org/serra-beth/serra-4.htm
• http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/s_z/serra.htm
• http://www.sfmuseum.org/bio/jserra.html

Vespucci

• http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15384b.htm - New Advent Encyclopedia
• http://www.studyworld.com/Amerigo_Vespucci.htm

Educational resources/lesson plans

Explorers - list of links from Teaching with the Web - Kennesaw Tech.

Explorers to the New World webquest