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
Introduction
Task
Process
Resources
Evaluation
Conclusion
• As you discover the lives of each
of these explorers, answer the
following questions on your log:
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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?
Anchors Away!!!!!!
Good Luck!!!!!
Resources Home
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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
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1. Prince Henry the Navigator
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2. Bartolomeu Dias
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New Advent
Mariner’s Museum
3. Christopher Columbus
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PBS
- Full Bio
Enchanted learning
Infoplease
Mariner’s Museum
4. John Caboto (Cabot)
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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
Piombo
Picture from
1995 Grolier
Multimedia
Encyclopedia
(UPI/Bettmann)
John Cabot
A 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
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5. Vasco Da Gama
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Enchanted learning
BBC
Mariner’s Museum
Vasco da Gama arrival at
Calicut
(Tapestry, Museu do
Caramulo)
6. Amerigo Vespucci
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Gibson
Report
Mariner’s Museum
SOURCE: IBM 1999
WORLD BOOK
7. Juan Ponce de Leon
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New advent
Enchanted learning
Copyright © 19942002 by coloquio.com
SOURCE: IBM 1999
WORLD BOOK
Resources
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8. Ferdinand Magellan
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9. Hernando Cortes
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Enchanted learning
Mariner’s Museum
Copyright© 2000 by
VirtualologyTM. All
rights reserved.
VirtualologyTM Privacy
Policy
Virtualology
Mariner’s Museum
10. Jacques Cartier
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historical
Mariner’s Museum
•Copyright©
2000 by
VirtualologyTM
SOURCE: IBM 1999
WORLD BOOK
Source: NAC/ANC.
From Gallery
Canada.
Resources
11. Francisco Pizarro
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Library of Congress
12. Hernando de Soto
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Think quest
Mariner’s Museum
Virtualology
Mariner’s Museum
13. Samuel de Champlain
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Panama History
Discovery
© 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
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14. Henry Hudson
– Mariners' Museum
– History
15. Robert de La Salle
– Enchanted learning
– Think quest
– Enchanted learning
16. Francis Drake
– Mariner’s Museum
– Biography
– BBC
National
Society of the
Daughters of
the American
Revolution
© Museum of
New France –
Canadian
Museum of
Civilization
Corporation
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!!