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• Finding Your Way: Using Maps and Globes
  No matter where we travel, we often need maps to find our way. Maps convey many different kinds of information. Included are examples of political maps, road ...                                                                                                                                                                                
• Understanding and Using Maps and Globes
  This two-part Unit of Study is designed to present students with explanations of how maps and globes are used to represent key concepts about our planet. One video ... 
                                                                                                                                                      
• Maps: Types, Symbols, and Terms
                                                                                                                                            
• Exploring the World: Ferdinand Magellan and the First Voyage Around the World
  In 1519, Ferdinand Magellan sailed from Spain with a fleet of five ships to look for a faster route to Asia. During this three-year, 50,000 mile voyage, Magellan ...                                                      
• Where Do You Think You're Going, Christopher Columbus?
  The children's book by Jean Fritz, with illustrations by Margot Tomes, comes to life in this iconographic program. Jean Fritz's lively narration provides a colorful ... 
  
• Exploring the World: The Age of Exploration Begins
  This program provides an historical introduction to the great Age of Exploration, which began nearly 600 years ago. Through animated maps and colorful live-action images from around the world, students learn how people lived in the year 1400. They discover how new inventions helped make world exploration possible. They learn how Europe's trade with Asia was conducted and discover how constraints on that trade helped give rise to the Age of Exploration.
• Early Explorers: The Age of Discovery
  Students learn about trade with the Far East in the fifteenth Century and how restrictions on that trade helped bring about the Age of Discovery. Join along with ...                                                                                                                                       
• Exploring the World: The Portuguese Explorers
  The great Age of Exploration began in the tiny country of Portugal. In this program, students visit the site of the famous navigation school founded by Prince Henry ...

• Exploring the world: Spanish explorers of North America. This program takes a look at the accomplishments of the first Europeans to explore lands that are today in the United States of America. The Spanish explorers came to find gold, claim new lands for their king, and covert native people to the Christian faith. This fascinating program was filmed on location at de Leon, Narvaez, Cabeza de Vaca, DeSoto, Coronado, and Cabrillo between the years 1513 and 1543 .
• Exploring the world: The Viking explorers. This program teaches students that the Vikings were a people who originated in Scandinavia; became adept at seafaring, warfare, and farming; and had a lasting impact on Europe. By the 900s, they had settled in such remote places as Iceland and Greenland, yet they were able to maintain ongoing communication with Europe through the trade ships that regularly plied the waters between them.
• How the west is fun: Explorers.Four middle-school students find out how tough it was to be an explorer in the 1800s. They travel to a spot on the Lewis and Clark route and discover that a good explorer needs math and science skills in order to survive. They also meet a tribal storyteller, who tells them about Native Americans who explored the region long before Lewis and Clark. At the end, the students use their map-reading skills to do some exploring of their own. A captivating adjunct to Science and Technology units, American History units on early US exploration and expansion, and Geography units on map-reading skills as well as regions of the United States.