Texas State Historical Association
Texas State Historical Association: Early European Exploration and Development
A chronological timeline of early European exploration and development in Texas spanning from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: The Explorers
[Free Registration/Login Required] Using video content and assessment integration, students will learn about the early explorers to the New World.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Early American Explorers
During this project-based lesson, young scholars will become detectives looking for information about early American explorers. Students will have the opportunity to navigate the Internet to locate important facts about these explorers....
Other
University of Western Ontario: Early Writing in Canada: Canadian Poetry
Collection of poetry and writing encompasses several centuries of Canadian literary production. Many of the writers are well-known historical figures, including explorers, such as Samuel Hearne, whose travel diaries are excerpted here....
Discovering Lewis & Clark
Discovering Lewis & Clark: David Thompson, Lewis, Clark, Jefferson
This web site is a group effort devoted to Lewis and Clark, the explorers. This section of the site describes David Thompson's role in their expeditions.
British Library
British Library:northwest Passage: Early Approaches, a Historical Account
Read about the early attempts to find a way through the Northwest Passage. Included are portraits and early maps of the explorers.
Mariners' Museum and Park
Mariners' Museum: The Ages of Exploration: Age of Discovery
This Age of Discovery page presents naval artifacts and explorers of the 15th century to the early 17th century. It looks at European explorers who journeyed to North and South America, the search for the Northwest Passage, and...
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: America in Class: Early Visual Representations of the New World
A lesson plan that examines how Native Americans were portrayed by artists in the sixteenth century, whose aim was to convey their appearance to a European audience, and thereby encourage investment in future New World explorations. By...
Hudson's Bay Company
Hudson's Bay Company: Dr. John Rae
John Rae was one of the last explorers sent out by the Hudson's Bay Company to chart the unknown north. This is a brief account of his accomplishments that included determining the facts about the ill-fated Franklin expedition.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Wisconsin State History for Kids
Kids learn about the history and timeline of the state of Wisconsin including early explorers, Native Americans, pioneers, Northwest Territory, and the Black Hawk War.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Explorers of Africa
Many of the explorers of Africa, from the fourteenth century on, are briefly profiled on this page.
Other
York Boats Colouring: Hbc Young Explorers
For early elementary students and teachers wanting to get involved with a York Boat exercise, the Hudson's Bay Company has this website with colouring templates, including one for York Boats.
PBS
Empire of the Bay: Who Were the Pathfinders?
Who were the men key to the Hudson's Bay Company? Read through the biographies provided through Empire of the Bay to find out.
Other
The Living History Society of Delaware Inc in Dover, Delaware (De)
Detailed information about the early explorers of the present State of Delaware. Includes information on many of the early explorers and pictures.
Curated OER
Etc: Early Explorers of the Atlantic Coast, 1492 1620
A map of the Atlantic coast of North America from the Labrador Peninsula and Gulf of St. Lawrence south to the Santee River in the Carolinas, showing the European explorations and settlements in the region between 1492 and 1620. The map...
Other
Northwest Journal: Life of David Thompson
An overview of the life of David Thompson, arguably Canada's greatest explorer.
Other
Radford University: Prelude to European Settlement of Virginia
This site traces the early voyages of explorers from Portugal and Spain who were trying to find new resources.
Other
Plant Explorers: Erasmus Darwin (1731 1802)
This site gives a detailed account Erasmus Darwin and his accomplishments in science and other areas.
Curated OER
Etc: Dev of Colonies and Early Western Explorations, 1700 1775
A map of eastern North America showing the early development of the European colonies and westward exploration to the Mississippi River. The map shows the routes of several early explorers with dates of exploration, including La Salle,...
Thinkport Education
Mpt: Exploring Maryland's Roots: Visit a Woodland Indian Village
Explore a Woodlands Indian village in the area of what became Maryland. By using drawings from early explorers, this representative village helps you understand the culture of the Eastern Woodland Indians.
National Snow and Ice Data Center
National Snow and Ice Data Center: All About Sea Ice
An intensive look at sea ice, its characteristics, how it is formed, where it occurs, why it is so important, scientific research, its impact on early explorers' voyages, and so on. Antarctic and Arctic sea ice are compared for...
PBS
Empire of the Bay: Henry Hudson
Who was Henry Hudson? What happened to him? This one-page biography from PBS provides learners with these details and more.
PBS
Empire of the Bay: Jacques Cartier
Who was Jacques Cartier? What voyages has history recorded? This one-page biography from PBS provides learners with these details and more.
Other
Fitzhenry and Whiteside: 'The Savage River' Teaching Guide [Pdf]
"The Savage River: Seventy-One Days with Simon Fraser", an historical novel by Marjorie Wilkins Campbell, begins in 1808 and follows Simon Fraser and his group of Voyageurs as they travel on the Fraser River in British Columbia. This...
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