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- Around the World in a Hundred Years
From Henry the Navigator to Magellan
by Jean Fritz
Deftly navigating the politically correct waters of revisionist
history, Fritz surveys the brief period, beginning early in the
15th century, during which most of the globe's coastlines were
first mapped. Ages 9-12. 1998 Paperback.
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- Top 10 and Recently Published
Homeschooling Books
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Age of
Exploration - 1400 - 1600
About
European
Voyages of Exploration
During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries two nations, Portugal
and Spain, pioneered the European discovery of sea routes that
were the first channels of interaction between all of the world's
continents, thus beginning the process of globalisation in which
we all live today.
Columbus
Columbus Unit Study
Additional resources for studying about Columbus.
Christopher Columbus
Perhaps the most famous explorer was Christopher Columbus. Born
in Genoa, Italy, in 1451 to a weaver, young Columbus first went
to sea at the age of fourteen.
Christopher's
Crossing
A game you could make and play to help you remember key facts
about Columbus.
Columbus Day
A sailor on board the Pinta sighted land early in the
morning of October 12, 1492, and a new era of European exploration
and expansion began.
Columbus
Day Crafts and Activities
These crafts projects are for preschool, kindergarten and elementary
school children. The crafts use materials found around the house.
Columbus Navigation
Homepage
Examining the History, Navigation, and Landfall of Christopher
Columbus.
Drake
Sir Francis Drake
Revered as a hero in the fight against the Armada and despised as an upstart by the old nobility, Drake epitomizes the self-made Elizabethan privateer, rapacious in the hunt for treasure (especially Spanish treasure) but daring and visionary in exploration. A fair number of other linked resources, too.
Sir Francis Drake
A child's report on the explorations of Drake.
Spanish Explorers
Milk
Carton Spanish Galleon
Substitute thin sheets of plastic, and you may be able to actually
sail this galleon on water for short periods. Would be worth
experimenting.
Spanish Colonial Military
Artifacts - History, Archaeology, Relics
While other materials are included in the illustrative displays,
the interpretive emphasis of this site has been placed upon military
clothing and, as they evolved, uniform-related artifacts: the
buttons, strap and accoutrement buckles, and insignia worn by
Spain's regular, provincial, and urban militia forces in the
study region.
Spanish Exploration
and Conquest of Native America
Hernando de Soto explored Native America in the 1540's, along
trails that are highways today. Conquest Records describe large
Indian villages, attacked then diseased, along those trails.
Pioneers settled those village clearings. [Note: Site is blocked
by some filters because of partial nudity, violence.]
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Related Books From Amazon.com
- Pedro's Journal: A Voyage With Christopher
Columbus August 3, 1492-February 14, 1493
by Pam Conrad
- Grade 3-6-- Pedro, one of three ship's boys on board the
Santa Maria, acknowledges that he was hired on not for his seamanship,
but for his ability to read and write. Readers see the boy's
discomfort in the explorer's proprietary treatment of the natives
and, in particular, his shame that these people are allowed to
believe that the Spaniards are deities.
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- Hernando
de Soto and the Spanish Search for Gold in World History
by Ann Gaines
- Grade 7 Up-Although this book is ostensibly about the explorer's
life and adventures, Gaines also gives substantial attention
to the culture and history of the various Native American groups
that the Spaniard encountered on his travels throughout what
is now the United States.
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- Tools of Navigation : A Kid's Guide to the
History and Science of Finding Your Way
by Rachel Dickinson
- Navigation is fun and fascinating for kids 9 and older with
15 hands-on projects and activities.
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