Exploration and Colonization Webquest

3rd Grade

 

columbus pocahontas johnsmith

 

Create a Biographical brochure of your Famous Explorer by following the steps below.
1. Who-Select an individual from the table below and find out biographical information.
2. What-Find important information to questions in your graphic organizer.
3. When-Define the time period for your individual's life.
4. Where-Describe and create a map of the area affected by your individual.
5. Why-Explain how your famous person influenced the events, ideas, and history of communities.

 

The New World
http://www.pilgrimhall.org/living.htm
http://www.kidport.com/RefLib/UsaHistory/Colonies/Colonies.htm
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/explorers/kids/h3-1300-e.html
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb
Jamestown
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/jamestown/?fs=www7.nationalgeographic.com
http://www.apva.org/history/
http://www.jamestown1607.org/
http://www.jamestown2007.org/kids-jamestown-adventure.cfm
http://www.cobbk12.org/~thinklinks/Grade2/Jamestown/
Quebec
http://www3.sympatico.ca/goweezer/canada/z16champ3.htm
http://faculty.marianopolis.edu/c.belanger/quebechistory/maps/index.htm
http://www.mcq.org/Nouvelle-France/index-en.html (interactive)
Lewis and Clark
http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/
http://www.lewis-clark.org/
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/lewisandclark/
http://www.lewisclark.net/

Iroquois
http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=597
http://www.iroquoismuseum.org/
http://www.rom.on.ca/schools/longhouse/longhouse1.php
http://www.cs.williams.edu/~lindsey/myths/myths_12.html
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0008433
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/cultural/northamerica/iroquois.html
http://www.tolatsga.org/iro.html
http://www.ic.arizona.edu/ic/kmartin/School/amer1.htm

Christopher Columbus
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/famouspeople/standard/columbus/index.shtml#focus
http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/1492.exhibit/Intro.html
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/colonial/columbus_1
http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/columbus.htm
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/page/c/columbus.shtml
http://www.sunniebunniezz.com/holiday/columbus.htm
http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/excolumbus.htm

Hernando de Soto
http://international.loc.gov/intldl/eshtml/es-1/es-1-2-2.html#track2 (Spanish)
http://www.mariner.org/exploration/index.php?type=explorer&id=35
http://www.mce.k12tn.net/explorers/spanishexplorers.htm

John Cabot
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&ArticleId=A0001151
http://library.thinkquest.org/J002678F/john_cabot.htm?tqskip1=1
http://library.thinkquest.org/4034/cabot.html
http://www.mariner.org/exploration/index.php?type=explorer&id=74

Henry Hudson
http://pbskids.org/bigapplehistory/early/topic1.html
http://www.zoomschool.com/explorers/page/h/hudson.shtml
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/colonial/hudson_1

Juan Ponce de Leon
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/page/d/deleon.shtml
http://www.mariner.org/exploration/index.php?type=explorer&id=66

Don Pedro Menendez de Aviles
http://fcit.usf.edu/Florida/lessons/menendz/menendz1.htm
http://www.nps.gov/archive/foma/home/sahist.htm

Pocahontas
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/famouspeople/standard/pocahontas/index.shtml#focus
http://nativeamericanrhymes.com/women/pocahontas.htm
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/pocahonta
http://personal.linkline.com/xymox/roh/poca.htm
http://www.apva.org/history/pocahont.html

Samuel de Champlain
http://www.samueldechamplain.com/
http://library.thinkquest.org/4034/champlain.html?tqskip1=1

http://www.ropfo.ca/champlain/voyage/ang_voyage.php
http://www3.sympatico.ca/goweezer/canada/z16champ3.htm
http://www.mariner.org/exploration/index.php?type=explorer&id=
1

John Smith
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/colonial/smith_1
http://www.harcourtschool.com/newsbreak/jamestown.html

Powhatan
http://www.baydreaming.com/powhatan.htm
http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/2e.asp

Jacques Cartier
http://www.cmhg-phmc.gc.ca/cmh/en/media_3.asp?flash=1&page_id=267
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9020554/Jacques-Cartier
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/colonial/cartier_1
http://library.thinkquest.org/J002678F/jacques_cartier.htm?tqskip1=1&tqtime=0426

 

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Updated: November, 2009
By: Arlene Jacob, CIT