Age+of+Exploration


 * The Age of Exploration** not only opened up a world of wealth and untold riches for countries like England, France and Spain, it opened up a whole new land that would eventually be settled and become the country of Canada as we know it today. Kings and Queens of foreign countries looked greedily at the vast wealth of resources of a new, untapped land. Explorers hired by various countries endured great hardships too come to this new land to look for spices, jewels, furs and many other commodities. In the process, they met and often exploited the natives who inhabited the new land.

Choose one of the following explorers to investigate. You will need to provide:
 * a brief biography, including history, family, etc
 * where they are from and other jobs they may have had
 * a summary of their explorations, especially those pertaining to the North American continent:
 * who did they explore for,
 * what was the purpose of their voyage(s): when, how many trips, where, what did they discover,
 * did they establish anything - such as trade posts or settlements,
 * what did they have for ships and tools of navigation,
 * what happened to them
 * a map of their voyage(s), one that is color coded if possible.

Once you have all of your information gathered, you will create a Powerpoint presentation for the class (if there is time). I will give you an outline as to how your presentation will be set up and how to print a copy for each class member.

The Explorers:

 * ~ England ||~ France ||
 * = John Cabot ||= Jacques Cartier ||
 * = Samuel Hearne ||= Samuel de Champlain ||
 * = Sir Humphrey Gilbert ||=  ||
 * = James Cook ||~ Italy ||
 * = William Baffin ||= Amerigo Vespucci ||
 * = Martin Frobisher ||= Giovanni da Verrazzano ||
 * = Francis Drake ||=  ||
 * = John Franklin ||~ Spain ||
 * = Henry Hudson ||= Christopher Columbus ||
 * =  ||= Hernando (Hernan) Cortes ||
 * ~ Portugal ||=  ||
 * = Vasco da Gama ||~ Others ||
 * = Gaspar Corte Real ||= The Vikings ||
 * = Henry the Navigator ||=  ||

Check out these websites as possible resource pages:
http://members.shaw.ca/kcic1/explorer.html http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/2/3/index-e.html http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/explorer.htm http://virtualology.com/hallofexplorers/ [|http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/alpha.html] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Explorers_of_Canada http://www.kidinfo.com/American_History/Explorers.html http://cybersleuth-kids.com/sleuth/History/Explorers/ http://www.chenowith.k12.or.us/tech/subject/social/explore.html http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/206/301/lac-bac/passages-ef/passages/index-e.html http://www.mariner.org/educationalad/ageofex/biographies.php

Evaluation and assessment:
The following rubric will be used to asses your final product:

You will need to complete a self-/group assessment as well. Save this document to your Documents folder. Each group member will fill one out on their own and hand it in to be combined with their final projects marks.