Here are our recommended Web sites and other resources for your school assignment on explorers.

Web Sites

• 1492: An Ongoing Voyage
  http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/1492/intro
• Age of Exploration
  http://ww2.mariner.org/exploration/index.php
• Discoverers Web
  http://www.win.tue.nl/cs/fm/engels/discovery
• Enchanted Learning
  http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers
• North American Exploration
  http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/206/301/lac-bac/passages-ef/passages/index-e.html
• Great Explorers of the World and their Expeditions
  http://geography.about.com/cs/exploration/

Databases

• eLibrary
• Gale Group
• Biography Resource Center
• Student Resource Center Gold
• Proquest

Sample search terms:

• Explorers, or type in the name of an explorer
• Exploration
• Expeditions

Library Catalog Search

• Discoveries in Geography
• Explorers
• Explorers, Children's Materials
• Explorers, America, Biography
• Explorers, America, Biography, Children's Material
• Explorers, Biography
• Explorers, Fiction
• Voyages and Travel
• Voyages Around the World

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