CommonLit
Common Lit: Columbus
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story, poem, or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: How Did Polynesian Wayfinders Navigate the Pacific Ocean?
Imagine setting sail from Hawaii in a canoe. Your target is a small island thousands of kilometers away in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. For thousands of years, Polynesian navigators managed voyages like this without the help of...
The History Cat
The History Cat: Us History: Plymouth Colony
The story of how Plymouth Colony came to be. Looks at the Puritan movement with its roots in England, the sailing of the Mayflower, and the progress of the settlers in their first years in New England. Describes their first encounters...
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Columbus and the Egg [Pdf]
"Columbus and the Egg" is a one page, historical fictional passage about Christopher Columbus's return to Spain after discovering America. Some people said anyone could sail the seas. Columbus used an egg to make a point. It is followed...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Book Pairings: "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
Moon Shadow is eight years old when he sails from the Middle Kingdom (China) to the land of the Golden Mountain (America) where he meets his father, Windrider, for the first time. In San Francisco, Moon Shadow and his father endure...
US Mint
U.s. Mint: Jamestown Challenge
Sail to the New World, and take the interactive, story quiz on the first permanent English settlement.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Gallery: Voyage of the Beagle
The HMS Beagle, carrying Charles Darwin, sailed for five years and circumnavigated the world. Darwin recorded his observations in journals and later published them in 1839. This site contains pictures related to this expedition.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Anglo Saxon England
In the fifth century C.E., people from tribes called Angles, Saxons and Jutes left their homelands in northern Europe to look for a new home. They knew that the Romans had recently left the green land of Britain unguarded, so they sailed...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Puritan New England: Plymouth
An overview of the Puritans who facing religious persecution in England set sail for the New World establishing the colony at Plymouth.
A&E Television
History.com: 10 Things You May Not Know About Christopher Columbus
Check out 10 things you may not know about the explorer who sailed the ocean blue in 1492 for example, Columbus didn't set out to prove the earth was round.
Pamela Seed
Rice: Latitude: The Art and Science of 15th Century Navigation
This is a great site to read about how navigation began in Europe and what tools were used. Make sure to read the segments on coastal navigation, maps, and ocean currents.
Other
U.s. Coast Guard: Boating Safety Division
This is a Coast Guard site dedicated to training people about boat safety. It has many programs it offers to the public.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Renaissance: Exploration and Trade
Detailed introduction on exploration and trade during the Renaissance. Provides an overview of the tools created during the Middle Ages that made such travels by sea possible as well as insight into the types of goods traders sought in...
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Technology: Talk Like a Sailor
Learn some of the words a sailor uses to talk about a boat. Includes audio narration in English, Spanish, and Turkish with text in English.
Other
Boat Safe Kids
This is a delightful site about boats and boating. Lots of games plus a terrific overview of the history of navigation. Includes a visit to a reproduction of Columbus' Nina.
ESPN Internet Ventures
Espn: American's Cup History
How are the teams doing this year in this race? This site from ESPN will give updates of the progress of the race.
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Web Museum: Odilon Redon
French painter and graphic artist, one of the outstanding figures of Symbolism. This site contains information on Redon's art work as well as providing examples of his work.
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Expanding Horizons
IBiblio.org offers insight to the science, beliefs, and technologies of 15th and 16th century Europeans. Provides excellent images and examples.
Digital History
Digital History: Roots of American Economic Growth: Speeding Communications
Find out the many reasons why communication speed increased in the early 19th century. It wasn't just because of the telegraph.
Texas A&M University
Ocean World: Satellite Oceanography
What does a satellite in space have to do with the oceans? Discover the answer to this question as well as uncover some interesting facts about satellites at this site.
Other
Mystic Seaport: The Museum of America and the Sea
The Mystic Seaport website not only provides information about the museum but also gives access to a wide range of online resources and digital exhibits all centered on America's seafaring past.
Read Works
Read Works: The Southeast Exploring the "Land of the Flowers"
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the Spanish explorers who discovered Florida, the land of flowers. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Eserver
E Server: Poetry Collection: Shakespeare: Sonnet 86
The text of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 86.
Greek Gods
Greek Gods: Greek Heroes: Atalanta
Read about Atalanta, the famous huntress and runner. Learn how she saved herself when she was attacked by Centaurs.
Other popular searches
- Sailing Ships
- Sailing Sail Boats
- Sailing Lesson Plan
- Mentoring and Sailing
- Sailing Boats
- Sailing Ships Art Activity
- Sailing Sail Boats
- Explorers Sailing
- Sailing Longitude
- 19th Century Sailing
- Sailingl
- European Explorers Sailing