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Fifth Grade Explorer Webquests & other Explorer Resources

What is a WebQuest?
What is a Treasure Hunt?
Treasure Hunt Development Guide
WebQuest Template
WebQuest Collections

Explorer Webquest?
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Using the items in the trunk and the websites listed, your challenge is to figure out which famous explorer owned the trunk.
An Explorer WebQuest
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Explorers
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List of Resource Websites on English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch and Viking Explorers
An Adventure to the New World
Great Explorers
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Why Explorers Explored the World, Explorer Timelines, Explorer Games, Explorer's Log Books, Explorer's Biographies, etc.
Alfred Elementary Explorer Webquest?
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Using the items in the trunk and the websites listed, your challenge is to figure out which famous explorer owned the trunk.
Hosmer's Explorer WebQuest
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Fifth Gradse Explorer Webquest
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A WebQuest for Fifth Grade on: Cultural Contributions through the study of Explorers, Folktales, and Geography.
Zoom Explorers
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A very in-depth list of explorers from the different ages. Click on the letter of your explorer and facts and information on that person will be available to you.
Voyage of Exploration : Discovering New Horizons
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"Voyages of Exploration: Discovering New Horizons" follows in the footsteps of some of the world's greatest explorers, reliving their adventurous expeditions into the unknown.
Fifth Grade Webquests
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A Variety of Fifth Gradse Webquests made by Fifth Grade Teachers.
Virtual Exploration Society
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Paddle down the Amazon with Percy Fawcett. Drive a dogsled to the North Pole with Robert Peary and Matthew Henson. Go to a mysterious isolated island with the Burden Expedition to capture a living dragon. Risk an ancient Egyptian curse with Howard Carter as he opens the Tomb of King Tut. Also includes information on Amelia Earhart, Leonid Kulik, Dian Fossey, and Walter Alva.æ
Explorers of the Millennium
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Join us as we travel through the millennium, and discover explorers and the places they have traveled. In this website you will find many interesting facts. Sail over to the quiz and test your knowledge on the explorers you have learned about at our website. You can also search for more information about explorers that interest you.
Famous Explorers
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This is a very comprehensive list of links covering explorers from all ages, and nationalities. Extremely complete and rich in resources.
Navigation
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An online learning resource for the historical study of cartography and navigation in Europe during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Exploration and Explorers
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Learn about the exploration and settlement of the Americas by studying maps, drawings, journals and presentations related to migrations and explorations from the time of the indigenous peoples of the Americas through European contact, exploration and settlement.
Who Goes There: European Exploration of the New World
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Recounts the stories of famous Portuguese, Spanish, English, and French explorers.
Explorer Timeline
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1271- 1295, Marco Polo goes to China. 1450, Prince Henry the Navigator builds school for sailors, etc.
General Links to Explorers
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This is a very comprehensive list of links of websites covering explorers.
European Voyages of Exploration
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Richly illustrated site looks at the factors that contributed to 15th and 16th century exploration and the individuals, as well as the roles Spain and Portugal
1492 An Ongoing Voyage > List of Topics : Library of Congress
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Online exhibition which examines the sustained contacts between American people and European explorers, conquerors and settlers from 1492 to 1600. There are many manuscripts and maps on this site
Spanish Conquest of Native America
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After coastal strikes in the early 1500's, Cabeza de Vaca, Hernando de Soto and Coronado explored Inland North America, including most of the Midwest US . This site traces Vaca's and Soto's trails
Explorers on the Web
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1271- 1295, Marco Polo goes to China. 1450, Prince Henry the Navigator builds school for sailors, etc.
Explorers on the Web
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Websites covering explorers.

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