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Explorers


http://www.mariner.org/age/menu.html - The Mariner’s Museum-The Age of Exploration Curriculum Guide

http://tqjunior.advanced.org/4034 - Explorers of the Millennium

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/longitude - Nova Online- The Search For Longitude

EARLY EXPLORERS

http://viking.no - The Viking Network Web

THE AGE OF EXPLORATION
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/renaissance - Exhibits Collection- Renaissance

http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1601-1650/champlain/voyag_i.htm - USA: Champlain, Voyages

THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE

http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/7557 - Captain James Cook- The Great Ocean’s Greatest Explorer

WESTWARD EXPANSION

http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest - New Perspectives on THE WEST

http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark - PBS Online- Lewis and Clark

CONTEMPORARY EXPLORERS

http://www.netsrq.com/~dbois/explore.html - Exploration and Adventure

http://www.matthewhenson.com - Matthew Henson

http://spaceart.com/solar/eng/homepage.htm - Views of the Solar System

http://www.terraquest.com/va/history/ages/heroic.html - Virtual Antaractica History: The Heroic Era

http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/women/intro.html - Women of Nasa

http://www.nauts.com/astro/bluford/bluford.html - Guion Stewart Bluford

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/2000/exploration/cousteau/main.html - Cousteau.2000

http://newport.pmel.noaa.gov/nemo_cruise98 - NeMO Cruise 1998

http://tectonic.nationalgeographic.com/2000/exploration - Exploring the sea

SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/interactive.html - The Natural History Museum: Interactive

http://www.twingroves.district96.k12.il.us/Renaissance/Town/Town.html - Virtual Renaissance

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/abyss/textindex.html - NOVA Online Adventure: Into the Abyss

http://astro.uchicago.edu/cara/vtour - Virtual Tour: Antarctic

http://hyperion.advanced.org/10157 - Geo-Globe: Interactive Geograhpy

http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/apollo11 - The History Place- Apollo 11

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MAP/map_hp.html - Cultural Maps

EMAIL AN EXPERT

http://www.nss.org/askastro - Ask An Astronaut

http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/mars/ask - Live From Mars- Question and Answer

http://www.nature.ca/english/askq.htm - Ask A Question

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/glad - National Geographic: Glad You Asked

http://sln.fi.edu:80/tfi/publications/askexprt.html - Ask An Expert @ the Franklin Institute Science Museum

http://www.sciam.com/askexpert - Scientific American: Ask the Experts

http://www.windows.umich.edu - Windows to the Universe

PROJECTS TO JOIN

http://viking.no/vnet/projects/eprojects.htm - Joining The Viking Network

http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/interactive - NASA’s Ouest Project: Online Interactive Projects

http://www.advanced.org/thinkquest/tqjr - ThinkQuest Junior

http://kidsat.JPL.NASA.GOV/kidsat - KidSat

http://www.tapr.org/emissary - Electronic Emmissary

LANGUAGE ARTS

http://www.bham.wednet.edu/explore.htm - Explorers of the World- The Biography maker

http://www.literature.org/Works/Jules-Verne - Jules Verne

GEOGRAPHY

http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~feegi - Latitude: The Art and Science of Fifteenth-Century Navigation

http://www.kyes-world.com/pythagor.htm - Pythagoras’ Playground

SCIENCE

http://whyfiles.news.wisc.edu - The Why Files

http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/halls/sci - The Hall of Science and Exploration

KEYPALS

http://www.epals.com - ePals Classroom Exchange

http://www.stolaf.edu/network/iecc - Intercultural E-Mail Classroom Connections

STUDENT GALLERIES

http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/kids - Kid’s Space

http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/mars/kids - Mars Team Online- Kid’s Corner

http://windows.engin.umich.edu - Introduction to Windows to the Universe

http://www.mecca.org/~graham/Poetry_Post.html - Poetry Post

SITES FOR TEACHERS

http://www.orst.edu/instruct/phl302/stories.html

http://www.sciam.com/explorations/1998/051898women - Scientific American Forum: Women In Science

ACTIVITIES AND LESSON PLANS

http://www.nmnh.si.edu/garden - Seeds of Change Garden

http://spaceplace.jpl.nasa.gov/spacepl.htm - The Space Place

http://www.met.fsu.edu/explores/latlon.html - Explores! Skill: Latitude and Longitude

http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/mars/teachers/learning.html - Mars Team Online: Teacher’s Learning Resources

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

http://www.ncss.org/standards/toc.html - NCSS Standards: Table of Contents