Description: This activity explains common diseases that sailors contracted such as scurvy, yellow fever, cholera, typhoid, and others. It then requires students to play the role of a ship doctor and to diagnose sick sailors based on their symptoms.

Description: This activity requires students to write about a modern mystery that they think will be solved by humans in the future - in the same way that the cause of Scurvy was a mystery for hundreds of years.

Description: Based on the Iroquoian explanation of the Kingdom of Saguenay to Jacques Cartier, students must describe and draw the greatest mythical place they have ever experienced in a book, movie, or video game! Very fun and engaging.

Description: This activities requires students to read short blurbs about three mythical kingdoms that explorers hoped to find: The Kingdom of Prester John, The Kingdom of Saguenay, and the Seven Cities of Cibola. Based on the descriptions, students should render imaginative drawings.

Description: This fun explorers activity requires students to construct a "Mt. Rushmore" of four explorers and to justify why they chose the explorers. The "heads" of ten different famous explorers or included and students simply cut them out to form the Mt. Rushmore.

Description: This activity requires students to identify the land explored by 11 different explorers including Columbus, de Leon, Coronado, Balboa, Cabot, Champlain, and more.

Description: This writing prompt requires students to determine whether or not Columbus should get his own holiday, and if not, what famous person should replace him and why?

Description: This writing prompt requires students to determine whether or not Columbus should get his own holiday, and if not, what famous person should replace him and why? Copy it directly to Google Classroom to use as an assessment, discussion or, to collect student data.

Description: This writing prompt requires students to consider an argument that Christopher Columbus was overrated in history. It then asks students to write about something they consider overrated.

Description: This is a coloring page that features a beautiful United States postage stamp honoring Captain James Cook.

Description: This is a coloring page that features a Canadian postage stamp honoring Jacques Cartier and Samuel de Champlain

Description: This is a coloring page that features a Canadian postage stamp that honors Jacques Cartier.

Description: This activity explains the idea of Sacagawea as an unsung hero. Students must then write about an unsung hero they select from movies, literature, sports, or their own lives.

Description: This is a coloring page that features a United States postage stamp honoring Sacagawea.

Description: Did you know that there are no known drawings of depictions of Sacagawea? All of the images you see of her today are simply guesses. This activity shows three different depictions of Sacagawea and challenges students to author their own "authentic" sketch of Sacagawea.

Description: When Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark to explore the vast Louisiana Territory, he had visions that they’d find exotic creatures such as wholly mammoths and undiscovered landforms such as mountains made of salt. While Lewis and Clark discovered over three hundred species of animals and plants, and even sent a magpie and prairie dog as pets to Thomas Jefferson, they never found the kind of creatures that legends are made of (though they did find massive grizzly bears). What if Lewis and Clark actually did discover an unworldly plant, animal, and landform, but those pages were somehow lost from Lewis’ journal forever when their keelboat capsized? In the spaces provided below, use your imagination to name, draw, and describe these lost discoveries.

Description: The section provides an introduction to the journal of Meriwether Lewis along with excerpts of his notes regarding observations of various birds and animals.

Description: This activity requires students to use the excerpts from the journal of Meriwether Lewis to answer the scavenger hunt questions.

Description: This printout requires students to consider a time when they thought they were at the cusp of finishing something great, only to learn there was MUCH more work to do - ALA Miley Cyrus.

Description: This printable exercise requires students to compare Lewis and Clark to other "dynamic duos" in literature, movies, or even sports.