Utah State University
Teacher Link: Celebrations: A Resource Guide for Teachers
TeacherLINK at Utah State University offers a wealth of topics and project information on celebrations held throughout the world. Click on "Topics and Authors," to access a long list of available lesson plans on a variety of...
abcteach
Abcteach: October
[Free Registration/Login Required] This site features a variety of activities and cutouts for October themes.
Geographypods
Geographypods: Renaissance Day: Discovering the 'Lost World'
Gain knowledge of how exploration, mapping, and voyages of the Renaissance period shaped and changed our understanding of the modern world.
Other
Explore: Dominican Republic
After reading a brief history of the Dominican Republic, take a virtual tour of this beautiful island in the Caribbean. Learn facts along the way.
University of Calgary
Uof C: Advances in Shipbuilding and Navigation
This site gives information on technical advances in Portuguese shipbuilding and navigational tools.
Other
Radford University: Prelude to European Settlement of Virginia
This site traces the early voyages of explorers from Portugal and Spain who were trying to find new resources.
Other
History of Cuba: Over 500 Years of Cuban History
A comprehensive reference tool for everything you'd want to know about Cuban history. Search by timetable or subject in the content area. Great photo galleries.
Read Works
Read Works: Native Americans Who Discovered America?
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the discovery of America. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: The Doctrine of Discovery, 1493
[Free Registration/Login Required] Abridged from the full text located at the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, this excerpt desribes the contents of the Papal Bull "Inter Caetera" issued by Pope Alexander VI. Paired texts...
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Crafts for Kids
Choose from dozens of simple crafts including activities for the holidays, animal crafts and much more.
Other
All About Explorers
This resource provides information about historic world explorers...with embedded false information. It was designed by teachers to help their students discern truthful information from false information.
The History Cat
The History Cat: Age of Exploration: The Columbian Exchange
A fascinating look at the exchanges that took place around the world after the Americas were discovered. This covered the gamut from diseases which wiped out 90% of the native peoples in North and South America, to farm animals, tools,...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Motivation for European Conquest of the New World
God, gold, and glory motivated European nations to explore and create colonies in the New World. This article discusses the Crusades and how they influenced European colonization projects.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Renaissance Trade and Exchange
Sixth graders will research the development of international trade and the resultant cultural exchanges during the Renaissance.
Study Languages
Study Spanish: Las Tortugas De Caparazon Gigante
This site has a cultural explanation in Spanish or English with a few comprehension questions aboutthe giant domed tortoises living on Ecuador's Galapagos Islands. Great reading selection for beginning and intermediate Spanish students.
A&E Television
Biography: Queen Isabella Farnese (1692 1766)
This resource offers a very brief biographical entry on Queen Isabella of Spain, also known as Isabella the Catholic.
Curated OER
Jamaican Capital Kingston
This BBC site follows the history of Jamaica from 1494 when Columbus first sighted it, to the present. Links to news stories are also available.
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Vinland, 1837
A map from 1837 of the area around Boston, Massachusetts, proposed by Rafn to have been settled by early Norse explorers before the time of Columbus. The map shows the place names described in old Norse mythologies.
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: North America, 1882
A map from 1882 of North America, Central America, and the Caribbean, showing political boundaries at the time, major cities, mountain systems, lakes, rivers, and coastal features of the region. The map is color-coded to show general...
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: North America, 1858
A map from 1858 of North America showing the boundaries at the time for Russian America (Alaska), Greenland, British America or New Britain, Canada East and Canada West, the United States, Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies...
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Cuba and Jamaica, 1911
A map from 1911 of the Greater Antilles (Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico), and the Lucayos or Bahama Island group. The map shows foreign possession at the time, capitals, major cities, and ports, railroads, terrain, rivers,...
Curated OER
Etc: Proposed Isthmian Canal Routes, 1848 1884
A map of the proposed isthmian canal routes in Nicaragua and Panama between 1848-1884. The map shows the two chief proposals, the Nicaraguan from Greytown on the Caribbean to Lake Nicaragua and Brito on the Pacific, and the Panama...
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Ohio, 1891
A map from 1891 of Ohio showing the capital of Columbus, principal cities and towns, railroads, canals, lakes, and rivers.
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