for Biographies of Individual Explorers (both books and websites).
Collective Biographies:
920 A - Extraordinary Explorers and Adventurers
920 L - Great Lives: Exploration
Reference Section
Ref 910 - Explorers and Exploration, 11 vol.
Ref 920 - Explorers and Discoverers of the World
Ref 920 - Encyclopedia of World Biography
Other Non-Fiction
910 - lots of books about the Age of Exploration!
911 - Atlas of Exploration (Info and maps for each explorer) Use other atlases of world history (on the atlas stand)
Also check 970.1 (for early exploration of North America
Subscription Databases For Magazine articles, Reference sources, etc. • From the TVLR page, choose Gale Student Resources in Context (Or click on the icon above). Your id # is twinvalley
---Click “proceed.”
• Enter the last name, first name of your person. i.e. Brown, John
• You may find Reference Sources, Magazine articles, Primary Sources, or Multimedia.
• Look in the “Reference Sources” tab for an article marked “biography” to SIRS Discoverer (search same as above)
Other HELPFUL WEBSITES: Zoom Explorers - An "Enchanted Learning Site" Provides brief information on an extensive list of explorers, with links to more information for many of them. This is a good place to begin. Check the alphabetical list, or choose an area of the world or a time period American Journeys - Eyewitness Accounts of Early American Exploration and Settlement (for primary sources)
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for Biographies of Individual Explorers (both books and websites).
Collective Biographies:
920 A - Extraordinary Explorers and Adventurers
920 L - Great Lives: Exploration
Reference Section
Ref 910 - Explorers and Exploration, 11 vol.
Ref 920 - Explorers and Discoverers of the World
Ref 920 - Encyclopedia of World Biography
Other Non-Fiction
910 - lots of books about the Age of Exploration!
911 - Atlas of Exploration (Info and maps for each explorer) Use other atlases of world history (on the atlas stand)
Also check 970.1 (for early exploration of North America
Subscription Databases
For Magazine articles, Reference sources, etc.
• From the TVLR page, choose Gale Student Resources in Context (Or click on the icon above). Your id # is twinvalley
---Click “proceed.”
• Enter the last name, first name of your person. i.e. Brown, John
• You may find Reference Sources, Magazine articles, Primary Sources, or Multimedia.
• Look in the “Reference Sources” tab for an article marked “biography”
Other HELPFUL WEBSITES:
Zoom Explorers - An "Enchanted Learning Site" Provides brief information on an extensive list of explorers, with links to more information for many of them. This is a good place to begin. Check the alphabetical list, or choose an area of the world or a time period
American Journeys - Eyewitness Accounts of Early American Exploration and Settlement (for primary sources)
Mr. Morrison's Class:
Exploration project.doc
GoogleMAPS.doc
SAS.doc
link to SAS
Age of Exploration Rubric.doc
Keep track of your sources(Works Cited info)