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- Alonso de Ojeda - Give a brief history and pictures of this Spanish Conquistador and explorer of the Americas.
www.bruce.ruiz.net/PanamaHistory/alonso_de_ojeda.htm
- Australian Explorers - Provides detailed accounts of men who explored and mapped the continent of Australia. Designed especially for elementary school students.
www.davidreilly.com/australian_explorers
- 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.
www.pbs.org/conquistadors
- Discoverers Web: Alphabetical List - Links to information on the lives of dozens of explorers.
www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/alpha.html
- 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.
school.discovery.com/homeworkhelp/explorationstation
- Early Explorers of California - Features short biographies of five of the first explorers of California.
www.dsusd.k12.ca.us/educational/explorers/index.html
- Explorer Poems - A fifth grade class shares the poems they wrote about the lives of famous explorers.
www.concord.k12.nh.us/schools/kimball/classes/mitchell/explpoe.htm
- Explorers of the Millennium - Fourth and fifth grade students offer short biographies of great explorers.
tqjunior.thinkquest.org/4034
- Explorers: Can You Identify Them? - Slide show includes facts about the lives of more than two dozen explorers.
web54.sd54.k12.il.us/schools/hale/pgraf/explorers99/sld001.htm
- Famous Hispanics: Vasco Núñez de Balboa - Short biography of the first European to see the eastern shore of the Pacific Ocean.
coloquio.com/famosos/balboa.html
- Forbidden Territory @ nationalgeographic.com - A glimpse into the lives of African explorers David Livingstone and Henry Morten Stanley.
www.nationalgeographic.com/features/97/lantern
- MMBC Exploration: Explorer Biographies - Brief biographies and portraits of Europeans who explored the Northwest coast.
mmbc.bc.ca/source/schoolnet/exploration/exbio.html
- My Hero: Explorers - Short student-friendly biographies of 10 men and women who ventured into new worlds during the 19th and 20th centuries.
www.myhero.com/explorers/explorers_content.asp
- 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.
pompstory.home.mindspring.com
- Student Explorer Reports - A collection of short reports on various explorers. Written by fifth graders.
www.kent.k12.wa.us/KSD/MS/student/Explorers.html
- Taking on the World: European Explorers - Features short biographies of the best-known European explorers.
tqjunior.thinkquest.org/6174
- The Electronic Passport to David Livingstone - Short, illustrated biography created for middle school students.
www.mrdowling.com/610-livingstone.html
- The Great Explorers - Includes brief biographies of both historic and modern explorers. Also includes timeline of exploration.
www.top-education.com/GreatExploration/index.htm
- 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.
tqjunior.thinkquest.org/6297
- 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.
library.thinkquest.org/C001692
- Who Goes There: European Exploration of the New World - Recounts the stories of famous Portuguese, Spanish, English, and French explorers.
library.thinkquest.org/J002678F
- You Wouldn't Want to be a Polar Explorer - Interactive site describing Shackleton's Endurance Expedition.
www.salariya.com/web_books/explorer
- Zoom Explorers - Brief biographies of men and women who have explored the earth and skies.
www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers
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