Students are introduced to the Louisiana Purchase and Lewis and Clark's expedition. They are explained that the Peace Medal Nickel, was the first nickel in the Westward Journey Nickel Series.

Students elicit data on the water cycle, ocean topography, and island formation in this six lesson unit. The ocean floor and the properties of water are examined through a variety of discussions and hands-on experiments.

Students use the internet to research the French Polynesian Islands in the Pacific Ocean. For each website, they scan the information and list five French words they do not know the meaning. They complete a worksheet to discover the...

Page by page, this is the manuscript journal of Cook's famous South Pacific voyage. Interactive images allow you to view portions of the manuscript, magnify it, print it and cite it properly.

A biography of the life of explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa.