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Subcategories

• Byrd, Richard
• Cabot, John and Sebastian
• Cartier, Jacques
• Champlain, Samuel de
• Columbus, Christopher
• Cook, James
• Cortez, Hernando
• Da Gama, Vasco
• Drake, Francis
• Ericson, Leif
• France
• Henry the Navigator
• Henson, Matthew
• Hudson, Henry
• Italy
• Jolliet, Louis
• Lewis and Clark
• Livingstone, David
• Magellan, Ferdinand
• Marquette, Jacques
• Peary, Robert
• Polo, Marco
• Ponce de León, Juan
• Portugal
• Raleigh, Walter
• Spain
• United Kingdom
• United States
• Vespucci, Amerigo
• de Soto, Hernando

Resources in This Category

• Alonso de Ojeda

  http://bruceruiz.net/PanamaHistory/alonso_de_ojeda.htm
  Give a brief history and pictures of this Spanish Conquistador and explorer of the Americas.

• Australian Explorers

  http://www.davidreilly.com/australian_explorers/
  Provides detailed accounts of men who explored and mapped the continent of Australia. Designed especially for elementary school students.

• Boldly Onward

  http://www.lindseywilliams.org/
  Online book by Lindsey Williams explores the South Florida history of the conquistadors Hernando De Soto, Ponce De Leon, and Panfilo de Narvaez, where they landed, where they explored, and their adventures.

• Conquistadors

  http://www.pbs.org/conquistadors/
  Share the adventures of Hernan Cortes, Francisco Pizarro, Fracisco de Orellana and Cabeza de Vaca as series host Michael Wood retraces their journeys in modern-day South America and the southern United States.

• Explorer Poems

  http://www.kathimitchell.com/explpoe.htm
  A fifth grade class shares the poems they wrote about the lives of famous explorers.

• Famous Hispanics: Vasco Núñez de Balboa

  http://coloquio.com/famosos/balboa.html
  Short biography of the first European to see the eastern shore of the Pacific Ocean.

• My Hero: Explorers

  http://www.myhero.com/myhero/go/directory/directory.asp?dir=explorer
  Short student-friendly biographies of 10 men and women who ventured into new worlds during the 19th and 20th centuries.

• Pomp - The True Story of the Baby on the Sacagawea Dollar

  http://pompstory.home.mindspring.com/
  This e-book tells the story of the baby born on the historic Lewis and Clark Expedition who would grow up to explore the American West.

• Vitus Jonassen Bering

  http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/np/pages/vbering.html
  Contributed to the discovery of Alaska by mapping the Coastline in two large Expeditions, together with scientist Georg Wilhelm Steller who recorded the journey.

• Zoom Explorers

  http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/
  Brief biographies of men and women who have explored the earth and skies.

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