Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Explorers
Do you know who Afonso de Albuquerque was? Do you know where Robert de LaSalle was from or where Jacques Cartier sailed? Enchanted Learning's A-to-Z list of explorers lets you browse through a large collection of biographical notes on...
Microsoft
Microsoft: Internet Explorer Downloads
Provides downloadable updates for Microsoft Internet Explorer for Windows. Includes critical security updates.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Explorers of Canada
This site from Enchanted Learning has a listing and information on the major explorers of Canada. Many of these men came to Canada from France over different times. Pictures are provided along with links to additional information.
Other
Project Gutenberg Australia: Australian Explorers, Discoverers and Pioneers
This resource provides links to Australian explorers, discoverers, and pioneers.
Teachnology
Teachnology: Explorers Teaching Theme
Enhance teaching about explorers with this collection of resources including lesson plans, activities, interactive websites and more.
NASA
Nasa: Explorer: America's First Spacecraft
Featuring various multimedia resources, NASA provides a comprehensive overview of America's first space satellite, Explorer 1, that launched the United States into space exploration.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Activity: Explorers Mini Project
A mini research project where students will pick an explorer who connected two world zones and answer questions about the journey of that explorer.
Read Works
Read Works: Vikings & European Explorers Vasco Da Gama
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about explorer Vasco da Gama. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: Vikings and European Explorers Amerigo Vespucci
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about explorer Amerigo Vespucci. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: Vikings & European Explorers Christopher Columbus
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about explorer Christopher Columbus. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Mariners' Museum and Park
Mariners' Museum: The Explorers
Museum website on explorers of the world. Students and teachers can link to information on any of the explorers to find out about their adventure and how they may have changed the world.
SMART Technologies
Smart: Exploring Explorers
This is a lesson activity which is written to engage visual and kinesthetic learners in their study on explorers: Leif Eriksson, Christopher Columbus, Erik the Red, Vasco Da Gama, John Cabot, Marco Polo, and Ferdinand Magellan.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Exploring Explorers
Students will create a video in talk-show format about explorers from the 15th-17th centuries. They will utilize books, the Alabama Virtual Library, and the Internet for reference. Groups of students will answer who, what, when, where,...
Other
Ten Explorers (Of Australia)
A summary of some of Australia's most significant explorers, including Charles Sturt, Edward John Eyre, George Grey, Peter Warburton, and others.
NASA
Nasa: Cobe: Cosmic Background Explorer
The Cosmic Background Explorer, or COBE, satellite began its space mission in November of 1989. Its task was to measure radiation levels from the early stages of the universe. This site explains the mission goals, COBE's specialized...
Other
Federal Reserve Bank of New York: Econ Explorers Journal [Pdf]
In this collection of lesson activities, students will complete an "Econ Explorers Journal" to help them learn how economics is involved in their neighborhood, the books they read, in earning a living, at their banks, in their homes, and...
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: History Explorer
History Explorer's site is designed for use by K-12 teachers and students as well as anyone interested in learning and teaching American history. Hundreds of innovative online resources are offered. Lessons, activities, interactives, PD,...
NASA
Nasa Star Child: International Ultraviolet Explorer (Level 2)
This site provides a description of the International Ultraviolet Explorer and what it accomplished. Glossary, graphics and a printable version are also included.
University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas: Explorers, Traders and Immigrants [Pdf]
This unit examines eight global commodities from their points of origin and the social, cultural, political, and economic changes they have wrought along their way. Each case study encompasses four "stops" along the commodity journey:...
CommonLit
Common Lit: "Lewis and Clark: American Explorers" by Barbara Radner
A learning module that begins with "Lewis and Clark: American Explorers" by Barbara Radner, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online...
NASA
Nasa: 21st Century Explorer
This is a standards-based program follows that provides content on what astronauts eat, how bodies change in space, and how imagination would help you to become a space explorer. Teacher and student educational resources, glossary, books...
National Geographic
National Geographic: Geostories: Emerging Explorers
Find out how modern-day explorers change the way we change our world in this interactive Geostory activity.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Stephen Bishop: Cave Explorer
A learning module that begins with "Stephen Bishop: Cave Explorer" by Judith Boogaart, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through...
Other
Plant Explorers: Dr. Daniel Carl Solander (1733 1782)
Profile of Dr. Daniel Carl Solander, a close friend and colleague of Joseph Banks. Solander was an eighteenth-century Swedish botanist and explorer who traveled the world collecting plant specimens for classification.
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