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Handout
Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Explorers

For Students 9th - 10th
Do you know who Afonso de Albuquerque was? Do you know where Robert de LaSalle was from or where Jacques Cartier sailed? Enchanted Learning's A-to-Z list of explorers lets you browse through a large collection of biographical notes on...
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Article
Read Works

Read Works: Stuck in the Icy Ocean by Kate Paixao

For Students 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage is about Ernest Shackleton's expedition to Antarctica, the problems he faced, and how he solved them. A comprehension question set and vocabulary information for the words courage, rescue,...
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Interactive
Mariners' Museum and Park

Mariners' Museum: Exploration Through the Ages

For Students 9th - 10th
A history of the world from the perspective of those who sailed the seas in great waves of exploration, from ancient times through the nineteenth century. Learn about the explorers, their ships, the tools they navigated by, and their...
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Graphic
National Geographic

National Geographic: Geostories: Voyages Across the Ocean

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this GeoStory in formal or informal instruction to provide information about the voyages of numerous historical navigators and explorers. This GeoStory helps students understand the importance of ocean exploration in contributing to...
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Who Is Alexander Von Humboldt?

For Students 9th - 10th
George Mehler details Alexander von Humboldt's major scientific accomplishments and why we should care about them today. [4:22]
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Handout
Walled Lake Consolidated Schools

Loon Lake Elementary: Explorers: The Age of Exploration

For Students 3rd - 7th
This Age of Exploration table is an organized, concise overview of famous explorers from the 15th to the 17th centuries.
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Graphic
National Geographic

National Geographic: Geostories: Emerging Explorers

For Students 5th - 9th
Find out how modern-day explorers change the way we change our world in this interactive Geostory activity.
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Website
Mariners' Museum and Park

Mariners' Museum: The Explorers

For Students K - 1st
Museum website on explorers of the world. Students and teachers can link to information on any of the explorers to find out about their adventure and how they may have changed the world.
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Whiteboard
SMART Technologies

Smart: Exploring Explorers

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This is a lesson activity which is written to engage visual and kinesthetic learners in their study on explorers: Leif Eriksson, Christopher Columbus, Erik the Red, Vasco Da Gama, John Cabot, Marco Polo, and Ferdinand Magellan.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Early American Explorers

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
During this project-based lesson, learners will become detectives looking for information about early American explorers. Students will have the opportunity to navigate the Internet to locate important facts about these explorers....
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Activity
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Activity: Explorers Mini Project

For Students 9th - 10th
A mini research project where students will pick an explorer who connected two world zones and answer questions about the journey of that explorer.
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Handout
Walled Lake Consolidated Schools

Loon Lake Elementary: Explorers: Sir Richard Grenville

For Students 3rd - 7th
Find out about the life of an explorer in this brief biography regarding an English naval commander, Sir Richard Grenville.
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Website
Ducksters

Ducksters: Explorers for Kids: Sir Edmund Hillary

For Students 1st - 9th
Explore the biography and life of explorer Sir Edmund Hillary on this website. Learn about the first man to climb Mount Everest.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Australia's Explorers

For Students 3rd - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart resource provides a framework in which students can explore and research some of Australia's early explorers.
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Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: List of Famous Discoverers

For Students 4th - 8th
Provides a long list of famous scientists and their significant discoveries and inventions.
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EL Education

El Education: A Buccaneer's Guide to the Age of Exploration

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A Buccaneer's Guide to the Age of Exploration depicts European world-wide exploration and exploitation through a collage-style book of text, hand-drawn and water-colored illustrations, maps, timelines, and diagrams. The book chronicles...
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Website
Ducksters

Ducksters: Crossword Puzzle Print Out for Kids: Explorers

For Students 9th - 10th
Print out a crossword puzzle game about Explorers. Learn about history and have fun at the same time.
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Website
Ducksters

Ducksters: Crossword Puzzle Game for Kids: Explorers

For Students 9th - 10th
An online interactive crossword puzzle that tests students knowledge of explorers.