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Explorers
You are looking for the challenges that explorers have faced, the opportunities they created and their effects on people, places and environments. These research suggestions and hyperlinks to websites will help you with your research.
Subject headings, Keywords for Library Catalogue
Explorers, exploration, the surname of the explorer, a country you are interested in
(look up the 'history', 'explorer' or 'discovery' in the index)
Dewey Numbers - 910.92, 993.02, 998.9, 796.522
Reference -
Britannica Encyclopedias, World Book Encyclopedias, Oxford Junior encyclopedias,
New Zealand Geographic magazines: Oct/Dec 1995, Mar/Apr 2008.
Information File - Britten, John; Hillary, Sir Edmund
On-line databases and websites
Britannica Online http://www.tki.org.nz/r/epic/
login on the left side of the page under the EPIC heading
login - darfieldhs, password: 22darfieldhs.
Scroll down to blue highlighted links - 'Britannica online school edition K-12'
or the 'Discovering Collection' (also biographies and science plus more)
Choose either Primary, Secondary or High School levels or 'search all levels'
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ (type in the name of the explorer)
http://www.nzedge.com/heroes/
http://www.factacular.com/subjects/famous_explorers
http://www.thinkquest.org/
http://www.kidinfo.com/american_history/explorers.html
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art2400.asp
http://woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Homework/tudors/explorers.htm
http://www.mce.k12tn.net/explorers/explorers_start.htm
Don't believe everything you read on-line - http://www.allaboutexplorers.comDarfield High School Library Team
