CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

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Question

http://www1.minn.net/~keithp/ships.htm
  1. Name the 3 ships.
  2. Which was the smallest of the ships?
  3. On the first voyage, which was fastest?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/famouspeople/standard/columbus/
  1. In what year was Columbus born?
  2. Whom did Columbus ask for money to buy ships?
  3. In what year did Columbus die?
  4. How old was Columbus when he died?

http://www1.bluemountain.com/eng/nativeamer/CDcolum.html

(Do not type in your name anywhere online.)
  1. Name a food that Columbus had never seen before coming to America.

http://www.mariner.org/educationalad/ageofex/columbus.php
  1. How old was Columbus when he first went to sea?
  2. Across what ocean did Columbus sail?

 

 

 

http://www1.minn.net/~keithp/cctl.htm

Christopher Columbus Timeline for additional research.

http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/columbus.html

Sites about Columbus

http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/excolumbus.htm 

Sites about Columbus

http://deil.lang.uiuc.edu/web.pages/holidays/Columbus.html

More sites about Columbus

http://teachervision.com/tv/printables/FactsAboutColumbus.pdf

Facts about the ships used on the first voyage.



http://teachervision.com/tv/printables/ColumbusDiscovery.pdf 

Map activity to print

http://teachervision.com/tv/printables/ColumbusQuizAnswers.pdf

Answers for Map activity



Thanks to http://www.lilli.clara.net/bground1.htm for the background.