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 * //Use the Biography Center in World Book Online to locate background information on your Explorer.// **



// **- ** // =**Viking Information:**=
 * //Login to MackinVIA and search for these titles. //**
 * [[image:eyewonder_explorer.png]] || [[image:eyewitness_explorer.png]] || [[image:christoper_columbus_ebook.png]] || [[image:st_lawrence_river.png]] ||

====Sail the stormy seas of the North Atlantic in your own longship and retrace the voyages of discovery and settlement to find the answers. Follow the path of the [|Norsemen] from their homelands in Scandinavia to the shores of the New World to see how recent advances in [|archeology], [|saga studies], [|history], [|environmental studies], and even [|human genetics] are changing our understanding of the [|Vikings], their neighbors, and their descendants. ====

[[image:explorers_cybersleuth.gif link="@http://cybersleuth-kids.com/sleuth/History/Explorers/index.htm"]]

 * //Index of Explorers with links to information on each. //**

Leif Erickson--Great Norwegians
===**List of food stuffs/provisions that explorers often took on their voyages. **===
 * Spanish Exploration and Conquest of Native America **


 * //Help excavate a Viking village //**


 * //Play the game of 'Viking Quest from the BBC, which takes you back to AD 793. Can you build a ship, cross the seas, loot a monastery and return home to claim your prize? Your chief has set the challenge, it's up to you to respond. //**

=Voyages of Discovery:= ==The European Voyages of Exploration (15th & 16th Centuries) == The European Voyages of Exploration / The Applied History Research Group / The University of Calgary Copyright © 1997, The Applied History Research Group

===="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. Our aim is to take the users on a journey through past centuries looking at these adventurers, the dangers they faced, where they went and their motivation for exploration. Click on name or Achievements.====



=Explorer Resources : = Explorers A-Z - Explore links to specific explorers. <span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> || ===<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">__**Emergent Readers and Researchers**__ ===
 * ~ =**<span style="color: #800080; font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Explorer **= ||~ =<span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**<span style="color: #800080; font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Follow the Paths to Helpful Sources ** = ||~ <span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Primary Sources ||
 * ===**<span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Christopher Columbus **===

===<span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">** Kids InfoBits -->People-->Historical People** (look for Columbus) ===

<span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">@http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/080_columbus.html (Images from the Library of Congress)
|| http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/documents/documents_p2.cfm?doc=194 ||
 * **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Hernando de Soto **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(3rd Gr. Core Knowledge) **

|| ===**<span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Kids InfoBits--> Search on ****<span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">De Soto **===

<span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">@http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/page/d/desoto.shtml
Biography.com <span style="color: #0000ee; font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">__@http://www.biography.com/articles/Hernando-de-Soto-38469__

<span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">@http://www.floridahistory.com/soto-biography.html
||  || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> || ===<span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #259d25; font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Kids InfoBits** -->search on **<span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Coronado, Francisco Vasquez de **===
 * **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Francisco Vasquez de Coronado **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(3rd Gr. Core Knowledge) **

<span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">@http://mrnussbaum.com/explorers/coronado/
<span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[]

<span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">@http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/a_c/coronado.htm
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 * ==**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Juan Ponce de Leon **==
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(3rd Gr. Core Knowledge) **

[[image:http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51S0DHj47HL.jpg width="150" height="159"]]
|| ===<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|PebbleGo] <span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-->Biographies-->Explorers-->World Explorers ===

===<span style="color: #259d25; font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Kids InfoBits** <span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**-->search on Ponce de Leon, Juan** ===

<span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">@http://www.mrnussbaum.com/explorers/deleon.htm
<span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Ponce de Leon] ||  || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> || ===<span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> **Kids InfoBits** **-->search on** ===
 * ==**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">John Cabot **==
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(3rd Gr. Core Knowledge) **

|| ===<span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Primary Source Documents--letters from Cabot's expedition ===

<span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">@http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/john-cabot.htm
|| <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">** (3rd Gr. Core Knowledge) ** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> || ===<span style="color: #259d25; font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Kids InfoBits** <span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**-->search on** ===
 * ==<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">** Samuel de Champlain ** ==

<span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">@http://mrnussbaum.com/explorers/champlain/
===<span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">@http://www.eduplace.com/kids/socsci/ca/books/bkc/biographies/bk_template.jsp?name=champlains&bk=bkc&authorname=champlains&state=ca === ||  || <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> || ===<span style="color: #259d25; font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Kids InfoBits** **<span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-->search on **===
 * ==<span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Henry Hudson ==
 * <span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(3rd Gr. Core Knowledge) **

<span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">@http://www.pbs.org/empireofthebay/profiles/hudson.html
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<span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ferdinand Magellan
==<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> == || ===<span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**<span style="color: #2c9b2c; font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Kids InfoBits **-->search on ===

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 * ==<span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Vasco Núñez de Balboa ==

|| ===<span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">** Kids InfoBits **-->search on ===

<span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">@http://library.thinkquest.org/J002678F/balboa.htm
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 * ==<span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hernando Cortez ==

==<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> == || ===<span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">BBC ===

<span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">@http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/eurvoya/aztec.html
||  || || ===**<span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Thinkquest **===
 * ==<span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Prince Henry the Navigator ==

<span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">@http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/eurvoya/henry3.html
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 * ==<span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Bartolomeu Dias ==

|| ===<span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">ThinkQuest ===

<span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">@http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04775b.htm
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 * ==<span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Pedro Alvares Cabral ==

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 * ==<span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Francisco Pizarro ==

|| ===<span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">FactMonster ===

<span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12140a.htm
||  || || ==== ==== ===<span style="color: #259d25; font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Kids InfoBits** <span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**-->search on** ===
 * ==<span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sir Frances Drake ==

<span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">@http://www.rmg.co.uk/drake
||  || || ====**<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">PebbleGo <span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-->Biographies-->Explorers-->World Explorers **====
 * ==<span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Jacques Cartier ==

<span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">@http://www.civilization.ca/virtual-museum-of-new-france/the-explorers/jacques-cartier-1534-1542/
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 * ==<span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Marco Polo ==

[[image:https://encrypted-tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR2-aG_5oockcLzZ1UyhAYAX6V0Q7q1UkM_joe8kfX4GeqCLtfavw width="138" height="180"]]
|| ===**<span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">PebbleGo -->Biographies-->Explorers-->World Explorers **===

<span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">@http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/polo_marco.shtml
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 * ==<span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Vasco Da Gama ==

<span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;"> || ==== ====

<span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">@http://www.thenagain.info/WebChron//WestEurope/DaGama.html
||  || =<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Eric Thorvaldson = <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> || ===<span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Fact Monster ===
 * ==<span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Eric the Red ==

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 * ==<span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Leif Eriksson ==

|| ===**<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">PebbleGo <span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-->Biographies-->Explorers-->World Explorers **===

<span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">@http://www.mnc.net/norway/ericson.htm
||  || <span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(3rd Gr. Core Knowledge)
 * ==<span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">El Pope ==

<span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tewa Medicine Man
|| ===<span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">PBS ===

<span style="font-family: &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;,Helvetica,sans-serif;">@http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/i_r/pope.htm
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=European Exploration, Trade, and the Clash of Cultures (5th Grade Core Knowledge):= //**Beginning in the 1400s, Europeans set forth in a great wave of exploration and trade.**//

__European Motivations__
 * Muslims controlled many trade routes
 * Profits through trade in goods such as gold, silver, silks, sugar, and spices.
 * Spread of Christianity in Europe
 * Missionaries
 * **//Bartolome' de las Casas//** speaks out against enslavement and mistreatment of native peoples.

__Geography of the Spice Trade__
 * The Moluccas (Spice Islands) as part of present-day Indonesia
 * New World Encyclopedia
 * Brittanica
 * Locate Indochina
 * Locate the Malay Peninsula
 * Locate the Phillippines
 * Define Archipelago
 * "Ring of Fire" Earthquakes and Volcanic Activity
 * National Geographic
 * Kids Fun Science

__European Exploration, Trade, and Colonization__
 * Portugal
 * //**Prince Henry the Navigator**// explores the West African coast
 * //**Bartolomeu Dias**// rounds the Cape of Good Hope
 * //**Vasco de Gama**//'s spice trade with India and exploration of the East Africa
 * Portuguese conquest of East African Swahili city-states
 * //**Pedro Cabral**//'s claiming of Brazil
 * Spain
 * Two worlds meet: **//Christopher Columbus//** and the Tainos
 * Treaty of Tordesillas between Portugal and Spain
 * Social Studies for Kids
 * National Geographic
 * Encyclopedia Britannica
 * **//Magellan//** crosses the Pacific
 * //**Vasco Nunez de Balboa**// reaches the Pacific
 * England and France
 * Search for the Northwest Passage
 * Colonies in North America and the West Indies
 * New World Encyclopedia
 * History Channel
 * BBC
 * Trading posts in India
 * Greeting India
 * Thought Company
 * Holland (The Netherlands)
 * Kids Past
 * Encyclopedia
 * US History

__The Sugar Trade__
 * African slaves on Portuguese sugar plantations on islands off West African coast, such as Sao Tome
 * World History
 * Black Past
 * Sugar Plantations on Caribbean Islands
 * Gettysburg
 * National Archives
 * West Indies (Cuba, Puerto Rico, The Bahamas, Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Jamaica)
 * BBC
 * UK National Archives
 * Gettysburg
 * Map

__Transatlantic Slave Trade: The "Triangular Trade" from Europe to Africa to the Colonies in the Caribbean and the Americas__
 * The Triangular Trade
 * Social Studies for Kids
 * BBC
 * Land of the Brave
 * The "Slave Coast" in West Africa
 * Brittanica
 * PBS
 * The Middle Passage
 * Brittanica
 * PBS
 * Kiddle
 * Soft Schools