1. Homework Help -- Famous People/Biographies biographies. general. AfricanAmericans. Artists. Asian-Americans. Athletes. Authors Illustrators. Composers Musicians. explorers discoverers History, biographies, Science, and http://www.kcls.org/hh/biographies.cfm

Library Services Find Your Library Ask a Librarian Reserve a PC Library Cards ... eBooks Good Reads Good Reads New Reads Book Clubs Youth Services Homework Help Kidspage TeenZone Library Resources eAudio Seniors ESL/Literacy Special Collections ... Email This Famous People/Biographies General African-Americans Artists Asian-Americans ... More Information Subject Categories: Biography Biography Resource Center More Information Biographical sketches and magazine articles focusing on nearly 275,000 individuals. Subject Categories: Biography Student Resources DISCovering Collection More Information Subject Categories: Biography Health and Medicine Literature Resource Center More Information Biographical, bibliographical, and critical content about literary figures. Includes the contents of Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select and Dictionary of Literary Biography. Subject Categories: Biography Back to top Last Updated: March 18, 2004

2. Biographies Homework dictionaries. general. Authors. Celebrities. discoverers/explorers. Multicultural. Native Americans Astronaut biographies. Benjamin Franklin Glimpses of the ManLearn all about Franklin's http://www.sdstatelibrary.com/forkids/people.htm

Homework Biographies English History Math ... Homework search engines, subject guides, and resources Click here to find homework help sites and electronic encyclopedias and dictionaries. General Authors Celebrities Discoverers/Explorers ... Women General Sites: FT=full text of articles is available online (if asked to login, type in your library card number and password) A+E’s Biography.com DISCovering Most Studied Authors FT from GaleNet (to begin, press the "Authenticate" button located near the bottom of the screen) info Gallery of Achievers Infoplease.com Biographies Lives, The Biography Resource ... top Specific Sites Authors top Celebrities: A+E’s Biography.com Wilson A. Bentley (Snowflake Bentley) top Discoverers/Explorers Discoverers Explorers from A to Z Women Adventurers Zoom Explorers Brief biographies of many explorers top Multicultural African Americans in History Cesar E. Chavez Eras In Black History Click on the "Articles"

3. External Web Links: General History - Biographies, Archives, And Other External WWW general History Biography, Archives and Other links for student researchers The general History links include biographies of notable men and women of all nations for all Annotated hotlinks to sites about early explorers and discoverers. The E-Hawk Cadre http://www.allhallowsparish.com/academy/genhist.htm

External Links Links: List Contents Children Parents Teachers ... Academy Home General History ( Archives, Biographies, and Other ) Introduction The General History links include Biographies of notable men and women of all nations for all historical epochs. The World History Archives section contains primary world history document collections ( which may include some U.S. documents ). The Other General History section contains multi-epoch and other difficult to categorize world history sites. For references to specific periods in history, see the appropriate World History or United States History pages. For recent world-wide news and propaganda refer to the Current Affairs page. General History Links Biographies 4000 Years of Women in Science http://www.astr.ua.edu/4000WS/ Biographies of over 125 women involved in the sciences before the 1900s. African-American Warriors http://www.abest.com/~cklose/aawar.htm Black military personnel, from American Revolutionary times to the present. African-American Women http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections

4. Mill Valley School District Explorers Links Vasco Núñez de Balboa. Sebastian Cabot. Christopher Columbus. Hernán Cortés. Vasco Da Gama. Sir Francis Drake. Leif Eriksson. Henry Hudson. John Smith. George Vancouver. general discoverers Pages. biographies OF explorers AND ASSOCIATED PEOPLE Discovery of Australia 1606. Other discoverers. THE ANCIENT WORLD http://www.mvschools.org/Curriculum_Links/explorers

Individual Explorer Links Vasco Núñez de Balboa Sebastian Cabot Christopher Columbus Hernán Cortés ... George Vancouver General Discoverers Pages BIOGRAPHIES OF EXPLORERS AND ASSOCIATED PEOPLE Short paragraphs Discovery of Australia 1606 Other Discoverers THE ANCIENT WORLD EGYPT PHOENICIANS HANNO ... THE VOYAGES OF JACQUES CARTIER Assorted Old Map Links Maps of the discoveries NOVUS ORBIS: Images of the New World, 1507-1669. Vasco Núñez de Balboa ... George Vancouver

5. European Explorers - Age Of Exploration Project Ideas. general Links. The Age of Exploration from the Mariner's Museum in Newport News, Virginia. Includes a timeline and curriculum guide. Discoverer's Web by a Netherlands University faculty member. discoverers Web Vasco Nunez de Balboa summary of this explorers adventures in Rodriguez Cabrillo from San Diego biographies. Juan Rodriguez http://www.chenowith.k12.or.us/tech/subject/social/explore.html

European Explorers of the "New World" in the Age of Exploration Project Ideas General Links The Age of Exploration from the Mariner's Museum in Newport News, Virginia. Includes a timeline and curriculum guide. Discoverer's Web by a Netherlands University faculty member. Explorers of the Millennium from the ThinkQuest Jr. project. Who Goes There: European Exploration of the New World a Thinkquest project Discovery School's Exploration Station - learn about some of the most famous European explorers who sailed the high seas. Empire of the Bay from the PBS series. Includes Hudson, Champlain, Cartier, and others. Florida of the Conquistador facts about Ponce deLeon, Panfilo de Narvaez, Hernando deSoto, and Tristan deLuna. PBS: Conquistadors - learn all about Cortes, Pizarro, Orellana, and Cabeza De Vaca- four men who helped explore the new world. Enchanted Learning Explorers Room 30's Explorer Page reports by a San Jose 5th Grade class. Bartholemew Dias, Vasco da Gama, Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, and Ferdinand Magellan are covered.

6. CanTeach: Links: Social Studies: Biographies - General Biography Sites Online lessons help writers with biographies through questioning aboriginal peopleof Canada, explorers and military discoverers Web links to www sites with http://www.canteach.ca/links/linkbiogeneral.html

Resources Links Discuss Submit ... Biographies General Biography Sites Includes a searchable and browsable online collection of 15,000 cross-referenced biographies from the Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia. Biographical Dictionary More than 25,000 notable men and women who have shaped our world from ancient times to the present day. It can be searched by names, birth years, death years, positions held, professions, literary and artistic works, miscellaneous achievements, and other keywords. The Biography Maker Online lessons help writers with biographies through questioning, learning, synthesis, and story-telling. Includes other links to biograpy resources. Canadian Portraits Discoverers Web links to www sites with information on voyages of exploration and discovery, including Canada. Famous Hispanics in the World and History Links to biographies of important hispanic figures. Kings and Queens of Europe A History of Royalty from the year 955 to today. Lives, the Biography Resource Thousands of annotated links to biography-related sites cataloged by individual names and biography collections, also including journals, diaries, memoirs, correspondence, oral histories, narratives, and more. Mr. Showbiz Star Bios

7. General Links Explorer Links. discoverers WEB comprehensive page of explorer biographies.explorers routes- route maps of famous explorers of America. http://www.osbornnet.org/cla/Amy Priest/Amy_made.htm

Social Studies Links General Links Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)-For Kids links to PBS kid shows. -Research resources on a variety of topics for those needing the information quick! Surfing the Net with Kids -cool website of what is hot for kids on the web. Check out the games and activities, especially author mix and match, indian dwellings mix and match, crosswords, trivia, magnetic virtual poetry, and more! Oh Kids! -Ohio Public Information Network. Click on "Webtweens" for 9-11 year olds. Has a lot of links for homework help, state homepages, and "fun things to do." Houghton Mifflin Education Place - Social Studies Center -links to current events, professional resources, and bilingual activities. Wizard of Oz Lesson Plans -a website of Wizard of Oz-based lesson plan ideas for Teachers Biography-features on recent people featured on Biography http://www.dasd-ew.org/history.htm - A fifth grade webpage with tons of links to a variety of sites. Geography Links National Parks -visit the National Parks National Geographic useful website for geography, maps, current events, and activities for kids such as links to articles and homework help.

8. Latin American History Resources Divided into three parts a general chronology, a chronology by topic, and biographies.World explorers and discoverers. Ed. by Richard E. Bohlander. http://www.lib.wsc.ma.edu/guidlatamerhistory.html

Westfield State College Ely Library Latin American History: Reference Sources Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Biographies Materials in the Stacks Databases: Library Catalog and Periodical Indexes Recommended Websites Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Biographies The reference books listed here provide general information to help get your thoughts going as you start a research project. Note: T hese can be found in the Library's reference area only (1st floor). The Cambridge encyclopedia of Latin America and the Caribbean. Ed. by Simon Collier, Thomas E. Skidmore, and Harold Blakemore. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. (REF F1406 .C36 1992) Contains lengthy “History” section covering pre-Columbian times to 1980s. Dictionary of twentieth century culture: Hispanic culture of South America. Peter Standish. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, 1995. (REF F2237 H57 1995) Contains descriptions of cultural figures, terms and events in twentieth century South American countries. "Culture" in this context refers to art, newspapers and magazines, fiction, theater and music. "South America" includes Colombia to the southernmost tip of Chile. Encyclopedia of contemporary Latin American and Caribbean cultures.

9. Inglemoor High School - Library Recommended General Resources Historic Figures From the BBC, this site provides biographies of the include AfricanAmericans,Authors Illustrators, explorers discoverers, World Leaders http://ihsweb.nsd.org/library/Recommended.html

School Profile NSD Home 15500 Simonds Rd NE, Kenmore, WA 98028 - Phone: (425) 489-6500 FAX: (425) 489-6593 "Home of the Vikings" Inglemoor Home Documents Staff Departments ... Alumni Library Links: About the Library Classroom Connections Recommended General Resources by Subject Effective Search Strategies ... Book Club Recommended General Resources by Subject We're adding to this section everyday!! Keep checking back and feel free to email us with your suggestions! sroberts@nsd.org or tmccausland@nsd.org Multimedia Maps Art ... Poetry Multimedia AP Multimedia Archie via KCLS Cool Clips - Free Clip Art w/o all the pop-ups! The Best Multimedia Sites from the Best of History This site lists the best sites containing multimedia (images, movie clips, etc.). Free Foto.com

10. Biography explorers discoverers Web This very Spartan site gets the job done with its AZ directory.general A E biographies Biography Web pages based on the television http://distancelearn.about.com/od/biography/

zJs=10 zJs=11 zJs=12 zJs=13 zc(5,'jsc',zJs,9999999,'') About Education Distance Learning Free Reference Tools Biography Home Essentials Site Description Introduction to Distance Learning ... Best Books on Distance Learning zau(256,152,180,'gob','http://z.about.com/5/ad/go.htm?gs='+gs,''); Free Online Learning Tools What is Distance Learning E-Learning Directories Evaluating E-Schools ... Help zau(256,138,125,'el','http://z.about.com/0/ip/417/0.htm','');w(xb+xb); Stay Current Subscribe to the About Distance Learning newsletter. Search Distance Learning Biography Want to know who is, or who was who? These online resources offer life histories of actors and actresses, authors, artists, inventors, Nobel Prize winners, even saints, from the ancient world to the present. Alphabetical Recent Up a category African Studies – African Diaspora Biography Links to quality biography collections on prominent African Americans have been gathered by Columbia University. African Writers: The Voices of Change This collection from the University of Florida offers short biographical sketches, lists major works and provides related Web sites for 20th century African literature and African writers. Afro Americans in the Sciences: African Americans in Science Profiled here are African American men and women who have contributed to the advancement of science and engineering.

11. General Explorer Sites information about explorers and discoverers from all European Exploration biographies,trade routes and articles about European explorers from DiscoverySchool http://www1.pvsd.net/cms/Library Webpage/General Explorer Sites.html

General Explorer Sites Age of Exploration - The Mariner's Museum This site is filled with information about early explorers. Use the menu to find the section you need. Alphabetical List of Explorers - HOMEWORK CENTER Looking for information about a specific explorer? Try this site for quality links to many individual explorers. CyberSleuthkids: World Explorers and Exploration A collection of links to information about individual explorers. Discoverers Web A very thorough site with links to information about explorers and discoverers from all parts of the world. Includes an alphabetical list of explorers and information about the risks of exploration. European Exploration Biographies, trade routes and more from the Virtual Maritime Museum in Canada. Includes European Exploration on the Northwest Coast. Exploration Station A collection of articles about European explorers- from DiscoverySchool.com. Explorers of the Millenium Great place to find names of explorers of the last thousand years. A ThinkQuest Project.

12. Social Studies Curriculum biographies. explorers and Inventors. discoverers Web Alphabetical list of explorers;Inventors Now Got an idea Check it out! general Resources. http://www.mvschools.org/sp/curriculum/socialstudies.html

Strawberry Point School 117 East Strawberry Drive An integrated and hands-on social studies/history program is provided at Strawberry Point School. Students use a variety of learning activities to increase awareness of their local, national and world communities in addition to encouraging better understanding and appreciation of the uniqueness of all people. Students use maps, globes, atlases, and computer programs to aid in understanding the world and their place in it. The democratic process is provided by participation in student council, class meetings and TRIBES activities. Students work together in groups utilizing community, classroom and library resources. The following K-5th grade social studies links are aligned with district and state standards. If you have any links to add, please email us as we will be updating this section often. Strawberry Point School Web Menu Home Calendar Curriculum Contact Us Mill Valley School District Parents Profile PTA Staff List Students Teachers Technology You be the Historian Biographies General Resources Geography ... United States History African American History Martin Luther King Speeches and Letters of Martin Luther King Stamp on Black History Created by students and honoring United States Postal Service Black History stamps

13. Explorers discoverers Web huge database about explorers http Greatest explorers of the Millennium- ThinkQuest Junior Info Please - short biographies by continent http http://www.kathimitchell.com/explorer.htm

Explorers General Sources Specific Explorers Other General Explorer Information American History Sources for Students - explorers from 4th and 5th Grade Student Research Resources http://www.learning.caliberinc.com/explorer.html Global Access to Educational Sources - explorers and discoverers http://www.geocities.com/jk02.geo/discover6.html Discoverers Web - huge database about explorers http://www.win.tue.nl/cs/fm/engels/discovery/ Eduplace Exploring and Settling http://www.eduplace.com/ss/hmss/5/unit/5.2.html Enchanted Learning - Explorers listed alphabetically http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/indexa.shtml European Explorers Come To America - French explorers - Timeline http://www.civilization.ca/vmnf/explor/explcd_e.html European Explorers Discover North America http://www.fcps.k12.va.us/OakViewES/harris/97-98/america/exploration/explorers.html Europeon Explorers in the New World from Chenowith, OR http://www.chenowith.k12.or.us/tech/subject/social/explore.html Explorers - Plymouth State College site - Vespucci and Champlain http://oz.plymouth.edu/~lts/wilderness/explorers.html

14. Homework Help--Famous People/Biographies--Explorers & Discoverers The Oregon Trail discoverers explorers This site, from Idaho State University,describes the men and Zoom explorers Brief biographies with pictures http://www.kcls.org/hh/bioexplorers.cfm

Library Services Find Your Library Ask a Librarian Reserve a PC Library Cards ... eBooks Good Reads Good Reads New Reads Book Clubs Youth Services Homework Help Kidspage TeenZone Library Resources eAudio Seniors ESL/Literacy Special Collections ... Conquistadors This PBS site describes the exploits of 4 famous 16th century Spanish explorers: Cortes, Pizarro, de Orellano and de Vaca. Discoverers Web Contains comprehensive list of links to discoveries and explorers from prehistoric to modern times, including an alphabetical index. Compiled by a PhD student and faculty member of a university in The Netherlands. Explorers Information about the exploration of Antarctica and biographies of the explorers is provided by the American Society of Antarctic Philatelists. Explorers of the World Created by Jim McKenzie of the Bellingham, Washington Public Schools, this site provides links to 11 land explorers and 8 sky explorers.

15. Discoverers Web Homepage - Links And Information On Voyages Of Discovery discoverers Web. In this project I try to gather all kinds of information found on the web about voyages of discovery and exploration. number of biographies and link pages on single explorers or http://www.win.tue.nl/cs/fm/engels/discovery

Discoverers Web In this project I try to gather all kinds of information found on the web about voyages of discovery and exploration. If you have found a source not represented on these pages, or if you have noticed any link on this page to be not working correctly, please (I'm begging you!) contact me Apart from this page on this site there is: A large number of biographies and link pages on single explorers or subjects. A special page for multi-page sites on voyages of discovery. An alphabetical list of explorers Exploring is risky business - a list of explorers who died during their voyages A list of changes to these pages Information on the email list discovery@win.tue.nl Awards for these pages Allowance to copy material from these pages and restrictions thereon Explorers by period or region The ancient world This subject now is divided into separate pages with more extensive information: The first explorers (including Egypt, Crete) Phoenicia and Carthage Greek explorers The Roman period The Medieval period This subject now is divided into separate pages with more extensive information: Irish and Vikings The Medieval period (Asiatic and other voyages in the period 1100-1350) The Age of Discovery The first part of this subject now is divided into separate pages with more extensive information: The coast of Africa The Portuguese empire (including the first voyages to India) Christophorus Columbus Other early voyages to America: See North and Central America North America South America Asia ... Non-Western Explorers maintainer of this page:

16. European Explorers biographies of explorers and Associated People Read a Great explorers of the Worldand Their Expeditions So discoverers Web discoverers Web In this project I http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/exage.htm

17. Homework Center - Biographies The Multnomah County Library Homework Center organizes over 3500 carefully reviewed K12 education and homework help resources for students, teachers, media specialists, and librarians. biographies explorers. Heroes. Hispanics. Industrialists. Inventors. Lewis Clark. Mathematicians. Native Americans. Nobel Prize Laureates. Oregon biographies general information about the http://www.multcolib.org/homework/biohc.html

School Corps Library Catalog Library Databases Ask Us! ... Tareas Escolares Biographies: Biography Megasites African Americans Artists, Musicians and Performers Astronauts ... Women of the West Biography Megasites Biographies http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/ Historical people related to American History. Biographical Dictionary http://www.s9.com/biography/ Formerly named Notable Citizens of Planet Earth, this updated version is a biographical dictionary with over 19,000 people indexed. Biography http://www.infoplease.com/people.html More than 30,000 biographies from Infoplease.com. Biography.com http://www.biography.com/ A database of 25,000 people - past and present. The Biography Maker http://www.bham.wednet.edu/bio/biomaker.htm "The Biography Maker is like those homework machines we have been hearing about for many years. It is designed to help you convert facts into insights, dull and boring information into fascination and magic." Colonial Hall: Biographies of the Founding Fathers http://www.colonialhall.com/biography.asp Biographies of all of the founding fathers who signed the Declaration of Independence. Each is approximately one page of text.

18. Kenosha Public Library - Biographies Freeality biographies Important People - Provides links to about 30 online explorers.discoverers Web - Provides links to web sites containing information on http://www.kenosha.lib.wi.us/links/biographies2.html

Guide to the Web Biographies General Art Authors Explorers ... Other General Biography Dead People Server - You hear that someone famous may be dead but you are not sure. How do you find out? This is a good place to start, as it lists famous people that have died and those that are commonly assumed to be or rumored to be dead but aren't. Includes a "rumors" section. Distinguished Women of Past and Present - Provides links to sites with biographical information. There is an alphabetical list by name and a subject index. Find A Grave - Gives locations of the final resting sites of famous people from around the world. Also some grave records of non-famous people. Freeality Biographies - Important People - Provides links to about 30 online biographical sources. For many of these it allows you to enter a name and hit a search key to directly search that site for information on the person in question. Lives, the Biography Resource

19. Early Modern History - Explorations And The "New World" Les explorateurs An extensive collection of French discoverers maintained by theMusée virtuel de la European explorers biographies of explorers http://www-geschichte.fb15.uni-dortmund.de/fnz/explor.html

Virtual Library History : Early Modern History Discovery, Explorations, and the "New World" Early Modern History is maintained by Stephanie Marra (Department of History, University of Dortmund) as part of VL-History. Please contact the editor if you know of relevant on-line information not included here. back to homepage Sources General indexes Biographies ... Institutions Sources The Early Modern World A compilation of primary sources as part of the "Internet Modern History Source Book" by Fordham University Colonial North America Some sources with the topic "Early Conquest" compiled by Fordham University Colonial Latin America Another collection of primary sources by "Internet Modern History Source Book" Voyages and European Expansions Collection of the Lilly Library at University of Indiana. The site offers only some pictures and short texts about the collection Exploring the West from Monticello "A perspective in maps from Columbus to Lewis and Clark" was an online exhibition at Alderman Library of the University of Virginia in 1995 Christopherus Columbus: Epistola de insulis nuper inventis Letter of Christopher Columbus with a statement of account and a description of the "New World" of originally April, 1494. The presented source is a printing of 1494 and digitalisized by the Library of Mannheim University (DE) as part of the special collection

20. Explorers Clothesline biographies info on Columbus written by reading level information onexplorers from A discoverers Web - numerous resources with various reading http://www.picadome.fcps.net/lab/currl/explorer/default.htm

Explorers General Sites Individual Explorer Pages General Sites The Age of Exploration - elementary themes web links The Age of Exploration - explorer pages by high school students information about Columbus, Drake, Magellan, Hernando de Soto, Ponce de Leon, and Vasco de Gama The Age of Exploration - high school reading level information from the Ancient World through James Cook Mr. Avery's Class: Explorers Project - 5th grade explorer reports on Vespucci, Captain Cook, Ericson, De Soto, Columbus, Magellan, Marco Polo, Cabot, Ponce De Leon, and Vasco de Gama The Case of the Missing Trunks - Explorer Webquest Clothesline Biographies - info on Columbus written by 2nd graders Conquistadors - PBS online learning adventure Discovers by Alphabet - high school reading level information on explorers from A - Z Discoverers Web - numerous resources with various reading levels Discovery and Exploration - high school reading level documents the discovery and exploration with both manuscripts and published maps Early Explorers m atch famous early explorers with their accomplishments European Explorers - explorer bios organized by country Explorations of the Northwest Passage -Arctic and Northwest Passage explorers Explorer Trading Cards - written by Mr. Leahy's 5th graders Explorer look at portraits and see if you can earn Explorer Trading Cards

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