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Explorers

Explorers Unit

SOCIAL STUDIES: 
We will be integrating our reading and writing to answer the following 
questions as we explore our social studies unit:  

Who really discovered America?
What were the Europeans searching for?
Why did Europeans explore America?
What happened when the 3 worlds met?
Where did the Spanish settle?
Where did the English and other Europeans settle?
Which colonies became the United States?
Which were the New England Colonies?
Which were the Middle Colonies?
Which were the Southern Colonies?
Where did slaves work in the Thirteen Colonies?

Exporer Sites

The history of the world is filled with explorers and the voyages or 
expeditions they took. Find out about some of them here.
http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/subjects/explorers.htm

Enchanted Learning Explorer site.
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/namerica.shtml

This text-based site contains brief biographies of several explorers.
http://oz.plymouth.edu/~lts/wilderness/explorers.html

The Conquest of North America
        by Hernando de Soto, Coronado and Cabeza de Vaca
http://www.vaca.com/inset11.html

TONS OF EXPLORER LINKS~If you are looking for information about a specific 
explorer, go to our Explorers - A to Z bonus page to access an indexed list 
of over 150 biography and information sites - - too many to fit on this page.
http://www.42explore2.com/explorers.htm

Read the pages offered in the left column. Several activities are recommended 
for each page. Next try to pass the online quiz for the page. These quizzes 
score your answers as you take them. Really cool!!
http://www.mce.k12tn.net/explorers/explorers_start.htm

The Web's Best Homework and Student, Teacher/ Parent Reference Resource
http://www.kidinfo.com/American_History/Explorers.html

Explorers Web Quest~ lots of information for researching explorers...
http://www.allaboutexplorers.com/

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