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Curated OER

Route of Champlain's Second Voyage, 1604 1607, From Cape Breton to Cape Cod

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 Fraser's Voyage From Fort Chipewyan to the Pacific Ocean, 1805 1808

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 Cook's Third Voyage, July 12, 1776 Oct 1780

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 of Cook's First Voyage, Sep 13, 1768 July 13, 1771

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 Cook's Second Voyage, July 13, 1772 July 29, 1775, South Pole

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 Franklin's Expedition From Fort Resolution to the Arctic Coast in 1825

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 Amundsen's Second Voyage, June 16, 1903 October 1906

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 Amundsen's First Voyage, to Antarctica, 1897 1899

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 Franklin's Final Voyage, May 18, 1845 to 1848

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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Library of Congress

Loc: America's Story: Daniel Boone First Saw the Woodlands of Kentucky

For Students 3rd - 8th
Explore the wilderness of Kentucky with Daniel Boone. Here is a brief summary of his travels. Also features a portrait of Boone, a photograph of his cabin, and a beautiful engraving of Cumberland Gap.
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Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: Britain in the New World

For Students 5th - 8th
Read about the early English explorers and find out why other countries did much more early exploration than the British. The defeat of the Spanish Armada turned the tide. Discover why the English now could explore and plant colonies.
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Other

Historical Museum of Southern Florida : The Spanish Colonization of Florida

For Students 3rd - 8th
Follow the early colonization of Florida. From explorers to settlers to trades between England and Spain, and finally to the emergence of the American territory of Florida.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Extra, Extra!! Mary Rowlandson's Captivity Newscast

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson will be an interdisciplinary lesson that involves both English Language Arts and Social Studies (History). The lesson will be primarily technology-based and also project-based that will have the students performing historical...
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: French and Dutch Exploration in the New World

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of the French, Dutch, and English explorers in the late 1500's and early 1600's.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Social Studies: Grade 3: The Louisiana Purchase

For Teachers 3rd
Students answer questions to explain how major explorers and leaders contributed to the early development of Louisiana.
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Mangbetu

For Students 9th - 10th
The Mangbetu live in the northeastern corner of Zaire. They are the founders of one of the few centralized political systems in Central Africa. The Mangbetu achieved a very high level of technological and material development, as...
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Curated OER

Cbc: Adventurers and Mystics: Europe and the New World

For Students 9th - 10th
From the CBC television series about Canadian history comes this summary of the English and French search for a Northwest Passage. Find out how these explorations laid the basis for their claims in the New World.
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Nebraska Studies

Nebraska Studies: Horses Change Native Lives

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how Spain's introduction of horses dramatically impacted the lives of the Native Indians.
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Other

Texas Bob: The Journey of Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca

For Students 9th - 10th
An English translation of Cabeza De Vaca's first-hand account of his journey and quest to claim territory from Florida to Mexico for Spain.
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Article
Library of Congress

Loc: America's Story: Johnson's Task, Unify Space Program

For Students 3rd - 8th
Russia was ahead in the "space race" in 1961. In this article, the Library of Congress discusses how President Kennedy assigned Lyndon Johnson the task of uniting the different parts of the U.S. space program into NASA.
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Article
A&E Television

History.com: Hispanic History Milestones: Timeline

For Students 9th - 10th
The American Hispanic/Latinx history is a rich, diverse and long one, with immigrants, refugees and Spanish-speaking or Indigenous people living in the United States since long before the nation was established. America's Hispanic...
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A&E Television

History.com: Amerigo Vespucci

For Students 5th - 8th
Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian-born merchant and explorer who took part in early voyages to the New World on behalf of Spain around the late 15th century. By that time, the Vikings had established settlements in present-day North...
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Other

The Stoa Consortium: Acropolis: The East Slope

For Students 9th - 10th
The East Slope of the Acropolis is an area that has not (yet) been the focus of a great deal of archaeological investigation. Early travelers and explorers noted, of course, the very large and prominent East Cave that forms such a...
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CZBrats

Fulfilling Her Destiny, Panama City Becomes Municipal Giant

For Students 9th - 10th
This page is a excerpt of an old (1969) newspaper article about the early history of Panama - when Spanish explorers first crossed the Isthmus and decided to call it by the name of a fishing village.

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