Explorer WebQuest

Zoom Explorers http://www.EnchantedLearning.com/explorers/ A very in-depth list of explorers from the different ages. Click on the letter of your explorer and facts and information on that person will be available to you.	A Treasure Trove of North American Exploration http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/explorer.htm Site created about many explorers by a grade 5 teacher in Canada. It has links to many other sites
The Age of Exploration This tour includes sites that provide general information about the Age of Exploration and sites with very specific orientations, such as biographies of explorers, the study of navigation, and cartography. http://www.techlearning.com/db_a	Voyage of Exploration : Discovering New Horizons http://library.thinkquest.org/C001692/ "Voyages of Exploration: Discovering New Horizons" follows in the footsteps of some of the world's greatest explorers, reliving their adventurous expeditions into the unknown.
Virtual Exploration Society - http://www.unmuseum.mus.pa.us/ves.htm Paddle down the Amazon with Percy Fawcett. Drive a dogsled to the North Pole with Robert Peary and Matthew Henson. Go to a mysterious isolated island with the Burden Expedition to capture a living dragon. Risk an ancient Egyptian curse with Howard Carter as he opens the Tomb of King Tut. Also includes information on Amelia Earhart, Leonid Kulik, Dian Fossey, and Walter Alva.	Explorers of the Millennium - http://www.education-world.com/a_special/millenium_02.shtml Join us as we travel through the millennium, and discover explorers and the places they have traveled. In this website you will find many interesting facts. Sail over to the quiz and test your knowledge on the explorers you have learned about at our website. You can also search for more information about explorers that interest you.
Famous Explorers http://www.kidinfo.com/American_History/Explorers This is a very comprehensive list of links covering explorers from all ages, and nationalities. Extremely complete and rich in resources.	Navigation http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~feegi/ Latitude : The Science of Navigation : Patricia Seed, History Department, Rice University An online learning resource for the historical study of cartography and navigation in Europe during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/longitude/ Online companion to a PBS broadcast series on the history of discovery of longitude. Informtion includes secrets of ancient navigators and more. There are external links to other sites including a definition of Latitude and Longitude and The Royal Observatory : The Longitude Problem m and how John Harrison solved it.	Zoom into Maps; Age of Exploration http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/maps/ Check out maps, anecdotes and examples of the age of exploration.
Who Goes There? European Exploration http://www.thinkquest.org/library/lib/site_sum_outside. This student project introduces visitors to some of the great explorers that filled in the map with lands that were previously unknown to Europeans. Begin your exploration along one of two routes. . The first route takes you through an introduction to why Europeans explored during the Age of Exploration or choose famous explorers by country of origin. . The second route allows vsitors to browse t the explorer timeline and choose from a list of famous explorers	Christopher Columbus & the Great Age of Exploration : http://www2.worldbook.com/students/ Worldbook Features Online Learn about Christopher Columbus, explorers before and after him, and the impact their discoveries had on the world. A collection of articles and activities gathered by editors from World Book products is listed under archived features > World History and Culture.
MILLENNIUM: 1000 Years of History : CNN Interactive http://www5.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1999/millennium/ Click on the 15th Century: Century of the Sail & 16th Century: Century of the Compass and here you will find an animated maps of the voyages of discovery. There are many other interactive parts to this website as well	1492 An Ongoing Voyage > List of Topics : Library of Congress http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/1492.exhibit/Intro.html Online exhibition which examines the sustained contacts between American people and European explorers, conquerors and settlers from 1492 to 1600. There are many manuscripts and maps on this site
Spanish Conquest of Native America : http://www.vaca.com/ D. Sheppard & C. Lucente, Native American Conquest After coastal strikes in the early 1500's, Cabeza de Vaca, Hernando de Soto and Coronado explored Inland North America, including most of the Midwest US . This site traces Vaca's and Soto's trails	Exploration...The Americas : NM's Creative Impulse http://history.evansville.net/explorat.html Another set of links on the subject of Exploration. Contains links to Mesoamerican Exploration.