Explorers

Explorers

Explorers Links

• The Electronic Passport to David Livingstone Short, illustrated biography created for middle school students.
  
• Alonso de Ojeda, the Explorer Excerpt from a 19th century history text tells the story of this Spanish explorer of North America.
  
• Zoom Explorers Brief biographies of men and women who have explored the earth and skies.
  
• My Hero: Explorers Short student-friendly biographies of 10 men and women who ventured into new worlds during the 19th and 20th centuries.
  
• Explorers of the Millennium Fourth and fifth grade students offer short biographies of great explorers.
  
• James Cook Slide show created by fifth graders outlines major events in the life of James Cook.
  
• Explorer Poems A fifth grade class shares the poems they wrote about the lives of famous explorers.
  
• Explorers: Can You Identify Them? Slide show includes facts about the lives of more than two dozen explorers.
  
• The Great Explorers Includes brief biographies of both historic and modern explorers. Also includes timeline of exploration.
  
• Early Explorers of California Features short biographies of five of the first explorers of California.
  
• Who Was Ponce de Leon? A biography of the Spanish explorer of the New World
  
• Discovery School's Exploration Station Collection of articles based on World Book Encyclopedia, tell about the most famous Europeans who set sail for new lands during the 15th and 16th centuries.
  
• Student Explorer Reports A collection of short reports on various explorers. Written by fifth graders.
  
• Australian Explorers Provides detailed accounts of men who explored and mapped the continent of Australia. Designed especially for elementary school students.
  
• Forbidden Territory @ nationalgeographic.com A glimpse into the lives of African explorers David Livingstone and Henry Morten Stanley.
  
• Taking on the World: European Explorers Features short biographies of the best-known European explorers.
  
• Discoverers Web: Alphabetical List Links to information on the lives of dozens of explorers.
  
• MMBC Exploration: Explorer Biographies Brief biographies and portraits of Europeans who explored the Northwest coast.
  
• The Journies and Expeditions of Marquette, Drake, Columbus, Cortez, and DeSoto Middle school students tell the stories of five men who explored North America. Each story is illustrated with original drawings.
  
• Voyage of Exploration: Discovering New Horizons Leads visitors on a journey through the past centuries looking at the explorers, the dangers they faced, where they went, and their motivations for exploration. In English and Dutch.
  
• Pomp - The True Story of the Baby on the Sacagawea Dollar 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.
  
• Famous Hispanics: Vasco Núñez de Balboa Short biography of the first European to see the eastern shore of the Pacific Ocean.
  
• Who Goes There: European Exploration of the New World Recounts the stories of famous Portuguese, Spanish, English, and French explorers.
  
• New World Explorers A fifth grade class relates the stories of the men who discovered the New World.