Exploration

Get to know the European Explorers!

Mariner's Museum- Information on explorers and tools they used to explore.

Columbus' Diary- focus on Oct. 12-15 when he met the Taino Indians

Interactive game- put events in order that have to do with exploration and colonization

Interactive lesson with information about the Colombian Exchange
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More info about the Colombian Exchange

Native American Displacement Map

Undercover Explorers websites:
Pizarro
Magellan
De Vaca
Diaz

Enchanted Learning
Explorer Info
Exploration Info

Maps
Waldseemuller map 1507
Exploration of N. America Interactive Map
Map of N. America 1658

Early Colonial Settlements

William Bradford's Journal of the First Thanksgiving
Plimoth Plantation Interactive History

​Websites helpful for ideas for wax museum costumes:
Dress the part pictures
Clothing ideas
Clothing in Jamestown
Pilgrim clothing
Plimoth Plantation Clothing


Colonial Groups- Food
Colonial Groups- Church
Colonial Groups- Farm
Colonial Groups-School
Colonial Groups- Park

Links about Early Colonial Settlements:
Jamestown:
Jamestown info
More Jamestown info
Jamestown again
Roanoke:
Lost Colony
Roanoke Timeline
Plymouth (Plimoth):
Plymouth colony
Plymouth notes
Mayflower Compact
Massachusetts Bay Colony:
Bay Colony Info
New Netherland and New Sweden:
New Netherland and New Sweden info


Government
Mayflower Compact
Colonial Charters

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