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Ducksters

Ducksters: Arkansas State History for Kids

For Students 9th - 10th
A site about the history and timeline of the state of Arkansas including early explorers, Native Americans, the Civil War, and Civil Rights.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Colorado State History for Kids

For Students 1st - 9th
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.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Delaware State History for Kids

For Students 1st - 9th
A site exploring the history and timeline of the state of Delaware including early explorers, Native Americans, colonial settlers, and the Revolutionary War.
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PBS

Empire of the Bay: Sir Martin Frobisher

For Students 9th - 10th
Read through the biography of Martin Frobisher to find out his importance in Canadian history.
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Other

The Norse Settlers in the New World

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Walled Lake Consolidated Schools

Loon Lake Elementary School: Vasco Nunez De Balboa

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies

Mocomi: Christopher Columbus

For Students 4th - 8th
Explores the early life of Christopher Columbus and how he discovered America.
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abcteach

Abcteach: Social Studies: History

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[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....
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: French and Dutch Exploration in the New World

For Students 9th - 10th
Outline text explaining how the French, Dutch, and English explorers began to make inroads into the Americans in the late 1500s and early 1600s.
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State Library of North Carolina

N Cpedia: John W. Kinchelo, Iii: American Indians at European Contact

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Curated OER

National Park Service: Sir Humphrey Gilbert

For Students 9th - 10th
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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Other

National Maritime Museum: Sea and Ships: John and Sebastian Cabot

For Students 9th - 10th
Information about John Cabot and Sebastian Cabot provided in a question-and-answer format.
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University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: The First Europeans

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Other

California Historical Society: California History Online

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Australia, 1885

For Students 9th - 10th
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,...
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Oregon, 1898

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Curated OER

Portrait: George Vancouver

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Hudson's Bay Company

Hudson's Bay Company: Samuel Hearne

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief illustrated account of Hearne's overland journeys through Canada, with an excerpt from his travel diaries.
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University of Toronto (Canada)

Port Royal, Nova Scotia

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Sir John Lederer's Marches, 1672

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Curated OER

Map Showing the Land Bridge That Joined North America and Asia

For Students 3rd - 8th
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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Curated OER

Cabot's First Voyage, May 2 to Aug 6, 1497

For Students 3rd - 8th
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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Curated OER

Route of Davis' Second Voyage, May 7 Oct 14, 158

For Students 3rd - 8th
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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Curated OER

Map Showing the Route of Davis' First Voyage, June 7, 1585 September 30, 1585

For Students 3rd - 8th
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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