All About Explorers

      Welcome to Mrs. Novak's web pages about explorers. Mrs. Novak has some other web pages about famous explorers. Check out On the Trail of Coronado if you want to know more about Coronado and Links Page for Virtual Fieldtrip 2005 for many links to Christopher Columbus.
      Once you have received your explorers name, click on the various timelines, list, other websites below and find out WHEN your explorer was adventuring. You can also click on your explorer's name in most of these timelines and get information. After you have found out when your explorer was around, click on the links by time to get more information.
 
Voyage of Exploration Discovering Timeline Age of Exploration - Timeline -The Mariners' Museum
Explorers' TimeLine Explorers' of the Millennium Timeline
Other Useful Websites

Before 1492

The Golden Age of Exploration (1492-1599)

After 1600
After 1800

A Hint to Help You:
Go to http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/  Enchanted Learning has the route of just about every explorer.  You can copy the picture and paste it into your web.  DON'T forget to copy the URL and paste it in the box below the picture.  You need to cite where you got the information/picture from.
 


EVERYTHING is true on the Internet!

    SO, what do think?  Is everything true on the Internet? Take a look at the website.  All About Explorers Everything you've ever wanted to know about every explorer who ever lived...and more!   What do think now?  Yours, Mrs. Novak


 

Vocabulary words for this unit:
Sage, knoll, encounter, exploration, cartographer, monarch, compass, navigation, conclusion, expedition, isthmus, scurvy, conquistador, civil war, grant, claim, mainland, rumor, desertion, missionary, colony, colonist, plantation, Northwest Passage, trade network, and agent.

All About Explorers - Columbian Exchange

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