Webquest• You will research an explorer and take notes

on the information you gather. • Next, create three slides to present the

information to your classmates. You may include maps, images, and text.

• For the last part of class, you will teach this information to your classmates so they can learn it and take notes.

Your Task

Your task is to explore and record several important facts about one of the sixteen most influential explorers during the Age of Discovery.

Once completed, you will create 3 slides teaching the class about your explorer.

The listed websites are a beginning! Feel free to find maps, routes, and other images.

The Process

• As you discover the lives of each of these explorers, answer the following questions on your log:– Who is the explorer?– Where are they from?– What country did they sail for?– When did they explore? (first or

most famous) – Why did they explore? (their dream) – What did they accomplish?– How did they impact the world?

Introduction

Task

Process

Resources

Evaluation

Conclusion Anchors Away!!!!!! Good Luck!!!!!

Resources Home

• 1. Prince Henry the Navigator• 2. Bartolomeu Dias• 3. Christopher Columbus• 4. John Caboto (Cabot)• 5. Vasco Da Gama• 6. Amerigo Vespucci• 7. Juan Ponce de Leon• 8. Ferdinand Magellan• 9. Hernando Cortes• 10. Francisco Pizarro• 11. Hernando de Soto• 12. Jacques Cartier• 13. Samuel de Champlain• 14. Henry Hudson• 15. Robert de La Salle• 16. Francis Drake

Resources

• 1. Prince Henry the Navigator– PBS - Full Bio

• 2. Bartolomeu Dias– New Advent – Mariner’s Museum

• 3. Christopher Columbus– Enchanted learning– Infoplease – Mariner’s Museum

• 4. John Caboto (Cabot)– Heritage – Virtualology– Enchanted learning

Portrait of Prince Henry, with the young Afonso V.From the Polytriptych of St. Vincent in

the National Museum of Ancient Art, Lisbon

Bartolomeu Dias, from a Portuguese postage stamp, 1945 The Granger Collection, New York City

Porrtrayed by Sebastiano del

PiomboPicture from 1995 Grolier Multimedia

Encyclopedia (UPI/Bettmann)

John CabotA detail from "The departure of John and Sebastian Cabot from Bristol on their first voyage of discovery, 1497." Oil on canvas by Ernest Board, 1906.From J.R. Smallwood, ed., The Book of Newfoundland, Vol 1. (St. John's: Newfoundland Book Publishers, 1937) 1.

Resources

• 5. Vasco Da Gama– Enchanted learning– BBC – Mariner’s Museum

• 6. Amerigo Vespucci– Gibson – Report– Mariner’s Museum

7. Juan Ponce de Leon– New advent– Enchanted learning

Vasco da Gama arrival at Calicut

(Tapestry, Museu do Caramulo)

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SOURCE: IBM 1999 WORLD BOOK

Resources

• 8. Ferdinand Magellan – Enchanted learning– Mariner’s Museum

• 9. Hernando Cortes– Virtualology– Mariner’s Museum

• 10. Jacques Cartier – historical– Mariner’s Museum

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Resources

11. Francisco Pizarro– Think quest – Mariner’s Museum

• 12. Hernando de Soto– Virtualology– Mariner’s Museum

• 13. Samuel de Champlain - Panama History – Discovery

Library of Congress

© 2001 THE WEST FILM PROJECT

© 2001 THE WEST FILM PROJECT

From Henry Kirke, The first English conquest of Canada: with some account of the earlier settlements in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, 2nd edition (London: S. Low, Marston & Co., 1908) facing 29.

Resources

• 14. Henry Hudson– Mariners' Museum– History 15. Robert de La Salle – Enchanted learning– Think quest – Enchanted learning16. Francis Drake – Mariner’s Museum – Biography – BBC

© Museum of New France – Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation

National Society of the Daughters of the American

Revolution

Texas Historical Commission

Conclusion

• Complete webquest and email slides to Ms. Hedrick

• Be prepared to present your information to your classmates in a way that they can take notes and remember it!! Not just reading from the slides!!