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Exploring Florida (Chanelle Maxwell) []

Summary: This website provides ample information about the history of Florida natives and explorers. Students can navigate though this website to find interesting facts of the life of Hernando DeSoto, along with many others.

Exploring Florida: Social Studies Resources for Students and Teachers (Natacha Edmondson) [] Exploring Florida provides numerous multimedia resources which can be used in the classroom. For instance, Florida in 3D displays historical pictures of St. Augustine, Florida natives, landmarks, and more. All of these photographs can be seen in 3D with red and blue 3D glasses. There are also 6,000 maps of Florida; music, and videos of Florida’s past listed on this site. Additionally, Exploring Florida provides a list of reading passages about historical events, places, and the people of Florida’s past. These reading passages often include primary source documents, questions, teacher notes, reading strategies and activity sheets.

Exploring Florida (Michelle Monge) [] Name of Web Page: Ponce de Leon: Florida's First Spanish Explorer Summary: This web page sums how Ponce de Leon, Florida's first Spanish explorer, discovered Florida and his journey getting there. It highlights the major points of his exploration.

Florida Department of State: Division of Historical Resources (Faith Griffin) [] This site provides a brief look at the explorer Ponce De Leon journey to Florida during his search for the Fountain of Youth.

Florida Department of State: Division of Historical Resources (Natacha Edmondson) [|http://www.flheritage.com/kids/history.cfm#european] This website offers a lot of information on the state of Florida including Florida’s government, state facts, and history. When perusing this site, I chose to focus on Florida History which provided information from Florida’s early human inhabitants to the World War II and Post-War “Boom”. In particular, I found the information on the European Exploration and Colonization, First Spanish Period, British Florida, and Second Spanish Period as a great reference for our unit plan.

Florida History Timeline (Chanelle Maxwell) [] Summary: This website provides students with dates and events that took place in Florida.

Florida Department of State: Division of Historical Resources (Michelle Monge) [] Name of Web Page: A Brief History of Florida Summary: Here you will find brief history of Florida touching base on early human inhabitants, European exploration and colonization, Florida development, and much more. It's a great website for getting the most accurate and basic information.

Florida Memory (Ana Bechel) [] This website is the history of Florida through photographs. It also includes photographs of what Florida is known for such as the wildlife, Everglades, Key West, etc. The earlier photographs include maps that detail the explorations and routes of a few explorers such as Ponce de Leon and Hernando de Soto. The website contains portraits of Juan Ponce de Leon, Pedro Menendez de Aviles, Hernando de Soto, Jean Ribault and Panfilo Narvaez.

Florida History Timeline (Michelle Monge) [] This is a great web site where major information is broken down into a timeline of Florida's history. The timeline includes European colonization, wars, settlements, and much more. You really get to see the history in order with major events.

The History Channel (Faith Griffin) [] This site provides videos and other information on explorers. The video provide a background of knowledge that teachers and students may not have been familiar with.

The Mariner’s Museum (Faith Griffin) [] This site provides an interactive map of the routes explorers traveled. Students can go to a picture gallery that explains the tools that the explorers used to navigate the globe. It offers a questions and answers section that provides information about what sailing was like during the centuries before refrigeration and engines. Students can read about different explorers journeys. This site has games that students can play to help them understand what life was like for people during a different time period.

TN History for Kids: De Soto National Memorial [] Summary: This fun website provide kids with facts and pictures of Hernando De Soto discoveries and conquest.

Oracle ThinkQuest (Natacha Edmondson) [] Oracle ThinkQuest is a website which contains content created by students for students. On this site I discovered a lot of information about the famous Explorers of the Americas and their native countries. Students can learn why explorers decided to venture out into the seas in search of new lands. Additionally, there is an Explorer Timeline which links to a webpage for each explorer. Every Explorer’s webpage provides important information about their motivation to explore and the journey they experienced. The page also includes a map of the areas they explored. Since the information is created by students, it is easy and fun to read. For example, Hernando de Soto’s webpage was presented in an interview style. It is all dialogue and would be a great paired reading exercise in the classroom.

Ponce De Leon: Florida’s First Spanish Explorer (Ana Bechel) [] This website is called “Exploring Florida” and has a lot of detailed history on Florida. This particular page is about Ponce De Leon and before and after his journey to what is now Florida. The page also includes teacher’s notes for how to use this information in a lesson and a timeline worksheet that explains how students learn to organize information in history by using a timeline. There are also links to others parts of the website that have information about Hernando De Soto and other Florida explorers. There are also teacher’s notes and worksheets for students.

St. Augustine: Written history (Ana Bechel) [] This website not only gives the detailed history of the discovery and founding of St. Augustine, but it has facts and pictures about different explorers, specifically Pedro Menendez de Aviles who is credited for being the founder of St. Augustine.