Ducksters
Ducksters: Arkansas State History for Kids
A site about the history and timeline of the state of Arkansas including early explorers, Native Americans, the Civil War, and Civil Rights.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Colorado State History for Kids
Kids learn about the history and timeline of the state of Colorado including early explorers, Native Americans, settlers, and becoming a state on this site.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Delaware State History for Kids
A site exploring the history and timeline of the state of Delaware including early explorers, Native Americans, colonial settlers, and the Revolutionary War.
PBS
Empire of the Bay: Sir Martin Frobisher
Read through the biography of Martin Frobisher to find out his importance in Canadian history.
Other
The Norse Settlers in the New World
Features a time line of the events of the Viking voyages to Canada. Identifies different events that occurred during this time period of early Viking exploration.
Walled Lake Consolidated Schools
Loon Lake Elementary School: Vasco Nunez De Balboa
A brief biography of Spanish conquistador, Vasco Nunez de Balboa, featuring his successful voyage for Spain to the western coast of South America in the early sixteenth century.
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: Christopher Columbus
Explores the early life of Christopher Columbus and how he discovered America.
abcteach
Abcteach: Social Studies: History
[Free Registration/Login Required] A directory of history resources (games, activities, puzzles, graphics) to be used as part of elementary study of Ancient Egypt and Greece, the Middle Ages, the Revolutionary War, and other topics....
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: French and Dutch Exploration in the New World
Outline text explaining how the French, Dutch, and English explorers began to make inroads into the Americans in the late 1500s and early 1600s.
State Library of North Carolina
N Cpedia: John W. Kinchelo, Iii: American Indians at European Contact
Native Americans inhabited the New World long before European explorers began establishing settlements on the land. This entry addresses the challenges the natives had to face upon Europe's arrival, trials in relationships, and how...
Curated OER
National Park Service: Sir Humphrey Gilbert
Although Sir Humphrey Gilbert (1539-1578) was not involved directly in the Roanoke voyages, both he and members of his family such as his half-brother Sir Walter Ralegh participated in the colonization of Virginia.
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National Maritime Museum: Sea and Ships: John and Sebastian Cabot
Information about John Cabot and Sebastian Cabot provided in a question-and-answer format.
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: The First Europeans
The first Europeans to arrive in North America -- at least the first for whom there is solid evidence -- were Norse, traveling west from Greenland, where Erik the Red had founded a settlement around the year 985. In 1001 his son Leif is...
Other
California Historical Society: California History Online
With over four hundred original images, this site covers periods in California's history from 1600 to the 1930s. Topics covered include the geography and climate of California, early aboriginal groups, the first European explorers, the...
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Australia, 1885
A map of Australia in 1885 showing the states and territories of Australia at the time, including Nuyts Land, De Witt Land and Tasman Land in Western Australia, Arnhem land, Alexandra Land in North Australia, Queensland, South Australia,...
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Oregon, 1898
A map from 1898 of Oregon showing the capital of Salem, principal cities and towns, railroads, mountain systems, lakes, rivers, and coastal features. "Oregon, name derived from Spanish word signifying 'Wild Thyme,’ so called on account...
Curated OER
Portrait: George Vancouver
This page gives biographical information about George Vancouver, an early explorer and geographer who mapped the West coast from Mexico to Alaska. It is written for ages 14 and up and complements one designed for ages 9-12.
Hudson's Bay Company
Hudson's Bay Company: Samuel Hearne
Brief illustrated account of Hearne's overland journeys through Canada, with an excerpt from his travel diaries.
University of Toronto (Canada)
Port Royal, Nova Scotia
Original drawing of Champlain's Habitation at Port Royal is shown along with photos of the fort after it was reconstructed. Steep roofs, narrow entrance ways and a closed in courtyard tell much about the conditions settlers had to live...
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Sir John Lederer's Marches, 1672
A facsimile of an early map (1672) showing the three routes taken by explorer John Lederer from the headwaters of the York River inland to the Appalachian Mountains between 1669 and 1670. The map is oriented with north to the right, and...
Curated OER
Map Showing the Land Bridge That Joined North America and Asia
This page, and the one after it, have a collection of the earliest maps of Canada by all the best known explorers.
Curated OER
Cabot's First Voyage, May 2 to Aug 6, 1497
This page, and the one after it, have a collection of the earliest maps of Canada by all the best known explorers.
Curated OER
Route of Davis' Second Voyage, May 7 Oct 14, 158
This page, and the one after it, have a collection of the earliest maps of Canada by all the best known explorers.
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Map Showing the Route of Davis' First Voyage, June 7, 1585 September 30, 1585
This page, and the one after it, have a collection of the earliest maps of Canada by all the best known explorers.
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