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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Robert E. Peary

For Students 9th - 10th
An American explorer who claimed to have been the first person to reach the geographic North Pole.
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Robert Peary

For Students 9th - 10th
An American explorer who is usually credited as the first person, on April 6, 1909, to reach the geographic North Pole.
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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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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The Dangerous Race for the South Pole

For Students 9th - 10th
After two Americans staked claim to reaching the North Pole, a Norwegian explorer and a British naval officer each set out for the last unmapped region in what newspapers called a "Race to the Pole." Elizabeth Leane sets the scene for...
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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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Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: Matthew Alexander Henson

For Students 9th - 10th
This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Matthew Alexander Henson, an American black explorer who accompanied Robert E. Peary on most of his expeditions, including that to the North Pole in 1909.
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Robert E. Peary

For Students 9th - 10th
(1856-1920) "An American Arctic explorer, famed as the discoverer of the North Pole." -Foster, 1921