4 - Explorers
Web Links:
- DISCOVERING NEW HORIZONS – A THINKQUEST SITE A Thinkquest site on exploration. Sections: Home World, Great Explorers (with a quiz for each), Expeditions (with quizzes), Navigation (how they did it), New Horizons (the future), Why Explore? (why they did it) and Teacher World (score tracking and activities).
- Enchanted Learning Explorers You may also put in a search of the explorer's name.
- Explorers Links to web sites on explorers, activities, web quests and sites by kids for kids.
- Explorers Lists explorers or groups of explorers with a brief essay on each. Each has several activities and a quiz. Includes a multiple choice quiz on all the explorers plus Hangman and Challenge games.
- Kids Online Resources Extensive list of links on explorers. Sections: Explorers, Vikings, The English and Conquistadors.
- Notable Explorers: Info Please
- Voyage of Doom Companion site to the Nova program “ Voyage of Doom” which chronicles the discovery and excavation of French explorer Robert Cavalier Sieur de La Salle’s ship, the Belle, which sank off the coast of Texas in 1688. The ship was discovered at the bottom of the bay and excavated. Sections: Stories in the Timber, Explore the Shipwreck, Who Owns Lost Ships?, Buoyancy Brainteasers and Teacher’s Guide, Resources, Transcript and more.