explorers

E x p l o r e r s =Library Catalog=
 * Locate books for this project using the suggested subject headings listed below or those that you have found useful. Enter the subject heading, go to ASW Library catalog [|here] and enter each subject heading separately:**


 * Explorers | Exploration | Pizarro, Francisco | Magellan, Ferdinand | Columbus Christopher | Cortes, Hernan**
 * | Gama, Vasco da | Discoveries in geography **

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 * Selected Books **

An Age of Science and Revolutions: 1600-1800 by Toby E. Huff. Timeframe AD 1400-1500: Voyages of Discovery. Time-Life. An Age of Voyages: 1350-1600 by Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks An Age of Empires: 1200-1750 by Margery Wall Bingham
 * HS 909 HUF **
 * HS 909 TIM**
 * HS 900 WIE**
 * HS 909.07 BIN**
 * HS 948 CRA** Explorers and Traders


 * Databases - ASW Library **
 * **[|Ancient and Medieval History Online]**** . Historical Perspective**
 * **[|Modern World History]Historical Perspective**
 * **[| Global Issues in Context] Contemporary Perspective**
 * **Great Empires of the Past**
 * **[|Advanced Placement Source] ** **Contemporary & Historical Perspective**
 * **[|Image Quest]** **Rights Cleared Images**
 * **[|MAS Ultra]Contemporary & Historical Perspective**

**See link on the left-hand side after you log into a class. **
 * Passwords for access from home are on [|Moodle.] **

** Selected Web Sites **
 * **[|History.com Topic]**** . Enter the explorer's name in the search box.**

**//"Twitter is an online social networking service and microblogging service//** that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, known as "tweets". It was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with over 140 million active users as of 2012, generating over 340 millions tweets daily and handling over 1.6 billion search queries per day. It has been described as "the SMS of the Internet."  ........................................................................... "Twitter." //Wikipedia//. Wikimedia Foundation, 04 Sept. 2012. Web. 11 Apr. 2012.

**Setting Up your Twitter Account for an Grade 9 Explorer Project**
 * Use your ASW email account
 * Use your first name and first initial of your last name
 * Password must be at least 6 characters
 * Your Twitter username will be that of the explorer you will be researching
 * There will be more than one Columbus, etc., in a class. Your will be assign an explorer and an number.
 * Twitter/Explorer usernames will be constructed like this: ** ASW Lastname Block Number **//.//
 * The user names for the 1st explorer in Block A would look like this:

ASWColumbus-A1 | ASWCortes-A1 | ASWdaGama-A1 | ASWMagellan-A1 | ASWPizzaro-A1 | ASWRicci-A1 | ASWZhengHe-A1


 * For other explorers and blocks simply change the block letter and name of the explorer.