World History
Map Site Traces Famous Voyages
If you want to show your students the voyages of Magellan, Columbus, Lindbergh's flight to Paris, DeSoto, the Silk Road, Marco Polo and others, this site is a great one. It also includes pictures and descriptions which you can see as you make the follow the voyages. By the way, I found it on a Delicious.com site. Delicious allow you to bookmark online so you can get to your links from any computer and it also shows you what others who have bookmarked the same sites are looking at.
- South-pole.com
South-Pole.com. This site offers history, biographies, and memorabilia of explorers of the "great white continent". This is probably the best history of Antartica site on the Web. Not that there are many of them out there... I like the quote on the index...
- James Cook: Celebrated North Country Explorer
James Cook: Celebrated North Country Explorer - The life of Captain Cook and his contemporaries as represented by the collections of the British Library, the Captain Cook Birthplace Museum, and other institutions. The site includes some video clips including...
- Voyage Of Exploration: Discovering New Horizons
Voyage of Exploration: Discovering New Horizons - Leads visitors on a journey through the past centuries looking at the explorers, the dangers they faced, where they went, and their motivations for exploration. It is available in both English and Dutch. ...
- Before Columbus: Zheng He - The Great Voyager
As we celebrate Columbus Day, don't forget Zheng He. His great treasure ships sailed throughout the Indian Ocean, and maybe beyond. His ships dwarfed those of Columbus and the Chinese might have given Europeans serious competition if they had not...
- Diigo (or Goodbye Delicious)
Diigo V5: Collect and Highlight, Then Remember! from diigobuzz on Vimeo. After three years with Delicious.com I am leaving. Two days ago Delicious announced their changes. I initially didn't want to change and even taught my teacher students...
World History
Famous Voyages
Map Site Traces Famous VoyagesIf you want to show your students the voyages of Magellan, Columbus, Lindbergh's flight to Paris, DeSoto, the Silk Road, Marco Polo and others, this site is a great one. It also includes pictures and descriptions which you can see as you make the follow the voyages. By the way, I found it on a Delicious.com site. Delicious allow you to bookmark online so you can get to your links from any computer and it also shows you what others who have bookmarked the same sites are looking at.
- South-pole.com
South-Pole.com. This site offers history, biographies, and memorabilia of explorers of the "great white continent". This is probably the best history of Antartica site on the Web. Not that there are many of them out there... I like the quote on the index...
- James Cook: Celebrated North Country Explorer
James Cook: Celebrated North Country Explorer - The life of Captain Cook and his contemporaries as represented by the collections of the British Library, the Captain Cook Birthplace Museum, and other institutions. The site includes some video clips including...
- Voyage Of Exploration: Discovering New Horizons
Voyage of Exploration: Discovering New Horizons - Leads visitors on a journey through the past centuries looking at the explorers, the dangers they faced, where they went, and their motivations for exploration. It is available in both English and Dutch. ...
- Before Columbus: Zheng He - The Great Voyager
As we celebrate Columbus Day, don't forget Zheng He. His great treasure ships sailed throughout the Indian Ocean, and maybe beyond. His ships dwarfed those of Columbus and the Chinese might have given Europeans serious competition if they had not...
- Diigo (or Goodbye Delicious)
Diigo V5: Collect and Highlight, Then Remember! from diigobuzz on Vimeo. After three years with Delicious.com I am leaving. Two days ago Delicious announced their changes. I initially didn't want to change and even taught my teacher students...