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
World Book Explorers List	Other Useful Websites

Before 1492
The Golden Age of Exploration (1492-1599)
After 1600
After 1800

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
Lesson Plan	Rubric