Explorers

• Index: Includes information about: commerce, exploring, farming, building, daily life, warfare and the last voyage. 

• Resources for Teachers
• Explorers Index
• Roald Admundsen
• First Nations and Inuit
• Vikings
• John Cabot
• Jacques Cartier
• Samuel de Champlain
• Martin Frobisher
• John Franklin
• Simon Fraser
• Samuel Hearne
• Henry Kelsey
• The La Verendryes
• John Davis
• Henry Hudson
• Alexander Mackenzie
• David Thompson
• George Vancouver

• The Explorers
• Their Ships
• Their tools of navigation
• Their Voyages
• The Great Exchange - The global exchange of cultures, plants, animals, and, disease.
• Life at sea
• Activities - Use the right margin to locate things to make: compass, astrolabe, quadrant, label a ship, create a globe

Jacques Cartier (Navigator-Explorer); Étienne Brûlé (Interpreter and Explorer);Samuel de Champlain (Geographer and Builder of a Colony); Jean Nicollet (The Peacemaking Explorer); Jean de Quen (The Missionary Explorer); Louis Jolliet (Professional Explorer); Cavelier de La Salle (Intrepid Explorer); Charles Albanel (Missionary Voyageur); La Vérendrye (Explorer of the West); Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville (The El Cid of Canada) 

Who were the Pathfinders? A look into the lives of the explorers and businessmen central to the Hudson's Bay Company. Martin Frobisher, Jacques Cartier, Henry Hudson, Samuel de Champlain, Radisson and Groseilliers, Charles II, Alexander Mackenzie, George Simpson, Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, Louis Riel.Try the quiz - link at the bottom of the page. 

• Maps of the explorers
• Timeline

• Read About This Site - The site is intended to teach students to evaluate accurate information on the internet and learn to access subscription databases such as World Book Online or SIRS Discoverer.
• Explorers from A to Z 
  • Lessons - Internet Treasure Hunts
  • Materials - Word and pdf files

• Explorers Index
• The Exploration of Canada
• First Nations and Inuit
• The Norse - Vikings
• John Cabot
• Jacques Cartier
• Frobisher
• Davis
• Henry Hudson
• Raold Amundsen
• William Baffin
• James Cook
• Médard Chouart des Groseilliers - RADISSON AND DES GROSEILLIERS
• John Franklin
• Simon Fraser
• Samuel Hearn
• Henry Kelsey
• La Vérendrye, Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de
• Alexander Mackenzie
• David Thompson
• George Vancouver

• Viking Invasion- Who were the Vikings?
• Viking Life
• Viking Beliefs
• Travel Trade and Exploration
• What happrened to the Vikings?
• Timeline
• Activities
• Teacher Resources- Lesson Plans with Printable Worksheets

The history of the fur trade, the personalities, stories, a timeline, and links to primary sources.

• Read About This Site - The site is intended to teach students to evaluate accurate infomation on the interent and learn to access subscription databases such as World Book Online or SIRS Discoverer
• Explorers from A to Z: Do not use these links for research of explorers
  • For Teachers
  • Lessons - Internet Treasure Hunts
  • Materials - Word and pdf files
  • Explorer Quest worksheets (Word docs): Balboa, Cabot, Cartier, Champlain, Columbus, DeGama, Deleon,Drake, Hudson, Magellan

Browse by century or location using the menu.

• Explorers of Canada

• John Cabot
• Jacques Cartier
• Samuel de Champlain
• Henry Kelsey
• James Knight
• La Vérendrye
• James Cook
• Sir Alexander MacKenzie
• David Thompson
• Sir John Franklin
• Vilhjalmur Stefansson

Arrival of Samuel de Champlain.

Maps with exploration routes.

Read about the rise in exploration. Click on become a Spice Trader and navigate the waters.

An entertaining on-line exploration trek with Lewis & Clark. This does not fit the Ontario Grade 6 curriculum exactly but students experience the trials of being an explorer.

The last slide tells of plants and animals.

Graphic of map done by Champlain.

Listing of many links to explorers. 

Use the menu across the top to access:

• Guided Tour
• Learning Center- Teacher's Guide, Web links
• Family Guide Printable activities 16 page PDF
• Hnefatafl Board Game

A text-based account of the early Viking explorers with internet links.

• Viking Discoveries
• Viking Ships

Information of early exploration of Vancouver and Mackenzie and the early mapping of the western ocean.

Lesson plan with links for students to make a research pop-up book.