*(Easy)

Fritz, Jean; Where Do You Think You're Going, Christopher Columbus

Fritz, Jean; Brendan the Navigator: A History Mystery about the Discovery of America
 

*(Average)

Dolan, Sean; Christopher Columbus: The Intrepid Mariner

Dreher, Diane Sansevere; Explorers Who Got Lost

Fritz, Jean; Around the World in a Hundred Years  European explorers

Haskins, Jim; Christopher Columbus: Admiral of the Ocean Seas

Goodnough, David; Francis Drake, Sea Pirate

Humble, Richard; The Age of Leif Erikson

Maynard, Christopher; Questions and Answers About Explorers

Sansevere-Dreher, Diane; Explorers Who Got Lost

*(Challenging)

Pelta, Kathy; Discovering Christopher Columbus: How History is Invented

Smiler, Nancy Levinson; Christopher Columbus: Voyager to the Unknown
 

*(Read-Aloud)

"The Log of Christopher Columbus' First Voyage to America: In the Year 1492, as Copied Out in Brief by Bartholomew Las Casas" Linnett Books, 1989.

Conrad, ?; Pedro's Journal
 

*(Resource)

Faber, Harold; The Discoverers of America

Grossneck, Joyce, and Attwood Elizabeth; Great Explorers

Video:

Age of Exploration: How Did it Change the World? EMC # 881487  (14 mins)

Beginnings of Exploration: Why Did Europe Discover America in 1492? EMC #881482 (14 mins)

Christopher Columbus EMC #885341 (19 min)
                  EMC #884107 (30 min)
                  EMC #881483 (14 min)
                  EMC #885291 (22 min)

For God and For Gold  EMC#883494 (19 min) Columbus controversy

Europe Explores the Americas:  North EMC #881484 (14 min)
                         South  EMC #881486 (14 min)

Marco Polo         EMC#884097 (22 mins)
 

Internet:

http://kroeber.anthro.mankato.
msus.edu/prehistory/vikings/
vikhome.html 
Viking exploration

http://www.ruf.rice.edu/
~feegi/site_map.html  15th
century exploration

http://home.ici.net/customers/
panther/francis/columbus.html  
Columbus specific

http://www.indiana.edu/~r317
doc/dr/CES-1.html 
Columbus specific

http://www.floridahistory.com/
inset11.html  
Spanish conquest of 
Native-Americans

http://www.mariner.org/age/
histvocab.html  
explorer's vocabulary

http://www.gla.ac.uk/Museum/
HuntMus/cook/  
Captain James Cook

http://www.geocities.com/
TheTropics/7557/index.html  
Captain James Cook

http://www.cmcc.muse.digital.ca/
cmc/cmceng/ca01eng.html  
Norse exploration in Vineland

Discover: The Age of Exploration.
ENTREX Software,
Inc. (CD-ROM, floppy, Mac, Win). This simulation provides twenty quests or challenges that circle  the globe and involve obstacles that confronted explorers in the 15th and 16th centuries. The user encounters pirates, weather, scurvy, trade, and
hunting challenges as well as discovering new animals, plants, and languages on different continents. Students consult maps and a database
to help them make the decisions required to complete the challenges.

http://www.ofcn.org/cyber.serv/
academy/ace/soc/elem.html

gopher://bvsd.k12.co.us:70/11/
Educational_Resources/Lesson_
Plans/Big%20Sky/social_studies

http://www.col-ed.org/cur/

http://www.mcrel.org/
connect/plus

http://www.trinity.edu/
departments/education/core/
newplans.htm

http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/
Lessons/crossroads

http://talk.startribune.com/
cgi-bin/WebX.cgi?homework-
14@@.ee6b2b9  
homework help

http://www.hmco.com/
hmco/school/search/activity.html  
*Houghton Mifflin

http://www.mcrel.org/
connect/lesson.html#social

http://www.nwrel.org/sky/
Classroom/Social_Studies/
Social_Studies.html

http://www.nationalgeographic.
com/resources/ngo/education/
ideas.html

http://www.rims.k12.ca.us/SCORE/

http://www.eduplace.com/ss/  
*Houghton Mifflin supplemental 
games, quizes maps

http://www.socialstudies.com/
index.html

http://www.mmhschool.com
/teach/socialstud/socstu1.html

1.) In assigned groups of three or four, students should produce a newspaper that illustrates the life and exploration of one of the following :

2.) Students should review newspaper format by examining various newspapers before beginning the project.

3.) Students are to research and gather information in order to design the following parts of their newspaper:

4.) After thorough research, each group collaborates on the production of the newspaper. Students also write ten questions about the assigned explorer that other students could find out about in the newspaper. Questions designed around the five "W"s would be appropriate.

5.) Newspapers are produced and shared. Students are quizzed by the teacher using the 10 questions.

Rubric for scoring: 

4 Points:

· Gathers relevant, accurate information 

· Shows thorough understanding of content 

· Exhibits outstanding insight/creativity 

· Communicates ideas clearly and effectively 

· Asks questions that are relevant, cover the topic and require students to read the newspaper.

3 Points:

· Gathers sufficient, accurate information 

· shows adequate understanding of content 

· Exhibits reasonable insight/creativity 

· Communicates most ideas clearly/effectively 

· Asks questions that are satisfactory and cover most of the newspaper information

2 Points:

· Gathers limited, accurate information 

· Shows partial understanding of content 

· Exhibits limited insight/creativity 

· Communicates a few ideas clearly 

· Provides a few pieces of information 

· Asks questions that cover part of the subject matter

1 Points:

· Fails to gather accurate information 

· Shows little or no understanding of content 

· Does not exhibit insight/creativity 

· Asks questions that leave significant information out.