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Explorers

Does our library own a book on your explorer? Search the CATALOG by Subject to see!

Also, try the link(s) to your explorer, and print what you need:

Roald Amundsen

Vasco Nunez de Balboa

Isabella Lucy Bird Bishop

Louise Arner Boyd

Louise Arner Boyd (brief article)

John Cabot

Jacques Cartier

Samuel de Champlain

James Cook

Francisco Coronado

Hernando Cortes

Hernando De Soto

Sir Francis Drake

Isabelle Eberhardt from Wikipedia


Isabelle Eberhardt New York Times article

Erik the Red

Leif Eriksson or Ericson

Esteban or Estevanico

Vasco da Gama

Prince Henry the Navigator

Henry Hudson

Louis Joliet or Jolliet

Mary Kingsley

Mary Kingsley - more info.

Rene-Robert Cavelier Sieur de La Salle

Ferdinand Magellan

Robert Peary

Francisco Pizarro

Marco Polo

Juan Ponce de Leon

Sacajawea

Tanaka Shosuke from Wikipedia

Tanaka Shosuke

Abel Tasman

Giovanni da Verrazzano

Amerigo Vespucci

Find more sources at:

or try Google Search Engine

(put in your explorer's full name and the word "biography")

Search here for an encyclopedia article:

MARVEL: Maine Databases  (Britannica)

Columbia Encyclopedia

Encyclopedia.com

Record the sources of all info. in your WORKS CITED list!


ENDANGERED SPECIES

Alligator

Giant Panda

Peregrine Falcon

Alligator 2

Gray Bat

Pygmy Hippopotamus

Amami Rabbit

Gray Wolf

Scimitar-Horned Oryx

Asian Elephant

Great White Shark

Scimitar-Horned Oryx2

Banded Linsang

Killer Whale

Sea Turtle

Bengal Tiger

Koala

Black Rhino

Komodo Dragon

Chimpanzees

Mahogany Glider

Coelacanth

Mahogany Glider 2

Coelacanth2

Manatee

Colobus Monkey

Monk Seal

Drill

Mountain Gorilla

Florida Panther

Orangutan

Google Advanced Search - the smart way to Google! 
Google Image Search (Use for pictures!)

World Wildlife Fund: Endangered Species

Bagheera

Species Under Threat (Excellent source. See if yours is listed!)

ESpecies Fact Sheets

The Wild Ones

In the Wild - Vanishing

Canadian Museum of Nature (lists species from all over)

Species in the Spotlight (Is yours listed?)

Animal Info. - Rare, Threatened and Endangered Mammals (Search for yours.)

World Wildlife Fund: Endangered Species

Endangered Species Fact Sheets

Endangered Species Info. from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

 

AMERICAN REVOLUTION LINKS

 Look here under B for Britannica Online Encyclopedia!

Links to American Revolution Info.

The Stamp Act

Battles of the American Revolution

Biographies of American Revolutionaries

American Revolution Biography Links from Yahooligans

Flags of the American Revolution

Valley Forge

 


Try these links to each explorer:

Roald Amundsen

Erik the Red

Francisco Pizarro

Neil Armstrong

Leif Eriksson or Ericson

Marco Polo

Vasco Nunez de Balboa

Esteban or Estevanico

Juan Ponce de Leon

Vitus Bering

Martin Frobisher

Sir Walter Raleigh

John Cabot

Vasco da Gama

Robert Falcon Scott

Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo

Prince Henry the Navigator

Henry Stanley

Jacques Cartier

Matthew Henson

Abel or Willem Janszoon Tasman

Samuel de Champlain

Sir Edmund Hillary

Giovanni da Verrazzano

James Cook

Henry Hudson

Amerigo Vespucci

Francisco Coronado

Louis Joliet or Jolliet

Hernando Cortes

Rene-Robert Cavelier Sieur de La Salle

Jacques Cousteau

David Livingstone

Hernando De Soto

Ferdinand Magellan

Sir Francis Drake

Robert Edwin Peary

Find more sources at:

or try Google Search Engine

(put in your explorer's full name and the word "biography")

Record the sources of all info. in your WORKS CITED list!


Colonial Life

Children in Colonial Times

Colonial Games and Toys

Amusements in Colonial New England

Plimouth Plantation Food at 2002 Prices


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