Curated OER
Magellan and Coronado
The best part of elementary school is learning about the explorers. Take your 5th graders on a quick trip with European explorers Coronado and Magellan. Described here are their routes, personal histories, and encounters in the New...
PBS
Pbs the West: Cities of Gold
This PBS site recounts the efforts of Spanish explorers to find the fabled gold of the New World.
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Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: Our Story: Explore Pueblo Pots [Pdf]
Students learn about Pueblo Indians, Santa Clara and Zuni, in particular, who made useful and beautiful pottery whose designs reflected their mythology and life. After viewing many of the designs, the students can draw their own pottery...
Other
New Mexico Genealogical Society: Early Spanish Exploration of the Southwest
This site describes the early Spanish exploration and beginning of colonization in what we know today as New Mexico.
PBS
New Perspectives on the West: Frank Cushing Zuni Anthropologist
A PBS biography of the Anthropologist Frank Cushing, who lived among the Zuni in 1879.