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Explorer Poems - A fifth grade class shares the poems they wrote about the lives of famous explorers.
Explorers of the Millennium - Fourth and fifth grade students offer short biographies of great explorers.
Voyage of Exploration: Discovering New Horizons - Leads visitors on a journey through the past centuries looking at the explorers, the dangers they faced, where they went, and their motivations for exploration. In English and Dutch.
Zoom Explorers - Brief biographies of men and women who have explored the earth and skies.
Pomp - The True Story of the Baby on the Sacagawea Dollar - This e-book tells the story of the baby born on the historic Lewis and Clark Expedition who would grow up to explore the American West.
MMBC Exploration: Explorer Biographies - Brief biographies and portraits of Europeans who explored the Northwest coast.
Who Goes There: European Exploration of the New World - Recounts the stories of famous Portuguese, Spanish, English, and French explorers.
Taking on the World: European Explorers - Features short biographies of the best-known European explorers.
The Journies and Expeditions of Marquette, Drake, Columbus, Cortez, and DeSoto - Middle school students tell the stories of five men who explored North America. Each story is illustrated with original drawings.
Famous Hispanics: Vasco Núñez de Balboa - Short biography of the first European to see the eastern shore of the Pacific Ocean.
The Electronic Passport to David Livingstone - Short, illustrated biography created for middle school students.
Australian Explorers - Provides detailed accounts of men who explored and mapped the continent of Australia. Designed especially for elementary school students.
Forbidden Territory @ nationalgeographic.com - A glimpse into the lives of African explorers David Livingstone and Henry Morten Stanley.
Conquistadors - Share the adventures of Hernan Cortes, Francisco Pizarro, Fracisco de Orellana and Cabeza de Vaca as series host Michael Wood retraces their journeys in modern-day South America and the southern United States.
You Wouldn't Want to be a Polar Explorer - Interactive site describing Shackleton's Endurance Expedition.
Explorers: Can You Identify Them? - Slide show includes facts about the lives of more than two dozen explorers.
My Hero: Explorers - Short student-friendly biographies of 10 men and women who ventured into new worlds during the 19th and 20th centuries.
Alonso de Ojeda - Give a brief history and pictures of this Spanish Conquistador and explorer of the Americas.
Discovery School's Exploration Station - Collection of articles based on World Book Encyclopedia, tell about the most famous Europeans who set sail for new lands during the 15th and 16th centuries.
Student Explorer Reports - A collection of short reports on various explorers. Written by fifth graders.
Captain George Vancouver - Biography of English captain George Vancouver and his exploration of the Pacific Northwest of Canada and the United States.
Vitus Jonassen Bering - Contributed to the discovery of Alaska by mapping the Coastline in two large Expeditions, together with scientist Georg Wilhelm Steller who recorded the journey.
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