Students: Please select one of the following explorers to research. You will be preparing a six part explorer report using the information from your text book, the internet and library books. Please use the project sheet to guide you in creating your report.

Marco Polo	Hernando Cortez
Christopher Columbus	Hernando de Soto
Ferdinand Magellan	Sir Frances Drake
King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella	Jacques Cartier
Prince Henry the Navigator	John Cabot
Henry Hudson	Father Marquette & Louis Joliet
Vasco de Balboa	Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
Amerigo Vespucci	Juan Ponce de Leon
Vasco de Gamma	Giovanni da Verranzano

Students: You will be required to cite all references using MLA format. The following link will help you to cite appropriately. Citation Machine

Report Outline

Project Requirements

Study Guide

Web sites for further research:

Explorers

Enchanted Learning
Encarta Encyclopedia (free)

This website was created by Mrs. Laurie Boisseranc, October 2007, for her 5^th grade students to reference for their explorer report.

This website gives credit to:

Reflections- United States History: Making a New Nation. 1st. Orlando: Harcourt, 2007.

January, Brandon. Explorers of North America. New York: Children's Press, 2000.

Microsoft® Encarta® Online Encyclopedia 2007
http://encarta.msn.com © 1997-2007 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

"Explorers." Enchanted Learning. 29 Oct 2007 <http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/indexp.shtml>.