Completed Marco Polo Map

For those of you who are out, or didn't get to finish it in class, please refer to the previous post for the interactive video, but here are a couple of photo's of the completed project.

Explorer Videos

Check out these videos as we learn about Explorers.

http://www.eduplace.com/kids/socsci/books/applications/imaps/maps/g2_u5/index.html an interactive video about Marco Polo's travels.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzFq0Ivwz9g Zheng He
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL2z2VCg5fw de Gama
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQzBJDoRDsc Christopher Columbus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwzoH2a-E4A Magellan

Websites to Visit for when reading Fever, 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson

http://www.history.org/History/teaching/dayInTheLife/webactivities/dress/dress.cfm

http://www.history.org/kids/games/dollGame.cfm

Both of these links will allow you the opportunity to discover the clothing of the time period we will be reading about when we read Fever 1793.