• Around the World in a Hundred Years by Jean Frit
  • Jean Fritz:
    http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/mtai/fritz.html
  • Carol Hurst on Jean Fritz:
    http://www.carolhurst.com/authors/jfritz.html

• Columbus and the World Around Him by Milton Meltzer
  • Columbus tasks/Columbus Honorable or Not?:
    http://coleman.glenrocknj.org/janiequest/Janie%20Columbus.htm

• Exploration and Conquest by Betsy Maestro
  • Teacher's Exploration lesson plans: http://www.lessonplanet.com/search/Social_Studies/History/Exploration_and_Conquest
  • Discovery, Exploration, Colonies & Revolution:
    http://www.teacheroz.com/colonies.htm

• Henry Hudson by by Ronald Syne
  • Henry Hudson:
    http://www.newnetherland.org/history.htm#HV

• I Sailed with Columbus by Miriam Schlein
  • Explorer's quiz:
    http://stutzfamily.com/mrstutz/exploration/whoami.html
  • Sailing: Logs and Knots:
    http://aerospace.wcc.hawaii.edu/logs.html

• If You Were There in 1492 by Barbara Brenner
  • 1492: An Ongoing Voyage:
    http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/1492/intro.html

• King's Fifth, The by Scott O'Dell [NB honor]
  • Synopsis:
    http://www.mysteriouscitiesofgold.com/kings_fifth.htm
  • Scott O'Dell:
    http://www.scottodell.com/

• Leif the Lucky by D'Aulaire [SON]
  • Leif the Lucky:
    http://users.adelphia.net/~kmjviking/Historical_Leif_the_Lucky.htm

• Pedro's Journal: A Voyage with Christopher Columbus
  • Explorer's activities:
    http://streetcat.bnkst.edu/CFDOCS/LessonPlans.cfm?Identifier=pedro

• Pocahontas D'Aulaire [SON] *V (Disney)
  • Pocahontas:
    http://www.apva.org/history/pocahont.html
  • The Real Pocahontas compares the Disney movie to reality:
    http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/1001/poca.html

• Stowaway by Karen Hesse
  • The Stoaway Adventure:
    http://k12science.ati.stevens-tech.edu/curriculum/shipproj/

• The Man Who Made Time Travel by Kathyrn Lasky [ALA]
  • Longitude activities:
    http://www.intandem.com/NewPrideSite/Asia/Lesson10/WS10.html
  • Charting the seas:
    http://www.history.navy.mil/branches/teach/ends/charting1.htm

• The Tainos: Rise & Decline of the People Who Greeted Columbus by Irving Rouse
  • The Columbus Invasion:
    http://www.members.tripod.com/catawba-people/columbus.htm

• Voyage of the Half Moon by Tracey West
  • Lesson plan:
    http://www.silvermoonpress.com/assets/PDFs/StoriesOfTheStates/TGUID-VoyageHalfMoon.pdf

• Who Really Discovered America? by Stephen Krensky
  • Activity and how to build a viking ship:
    http://www.mce.k12tn.net/explorers/did_columbus_really_discover_ame.htm

• World's Great Explorers, The: Leif Erikson and the Vikings by Charnan Simon
  • Explorers unit study:
    http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/2365/

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