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Methuen High School Media Center--Methuen, MA
Pathfinders are pages that offer students selected resources in a variety of media 
on a topic they are researching. They provide a head start for students as they 
begin their research project.

Explorers

To find books in the MHS Media Center, open Spectrum (the electronic card catalog) located on the student desktop. Type in the topic you want to search.  If you don't already have a topic, you can find some lists of books by typing in the following keywords:

Explorers
Discoveries
Discovery and Exploration
Adventure and Adventurers
Discoveries in Geography

Some titles we have are:

030
ONE		 100 Greatest Explorers.  Danbury, CT : Grolier Educational, 1997.
910
ALT		 Alter, Judy. Extraordinary Explorers and Adventurers. New York : Children's Press, 2001.
910
FLO		 Flowers, Sarah. The Age of Exploration. San Diego, CA : Lucent Books, 1999.
970.004
WRI		 White, Ronald. Stolen Continents : The Americas through Indian Eyes Since 1492. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1992.
REF
910.9
DIS		 Discovery and Exploration. Edited by Felix Barker and Anthea Barker. New York : Marshall Cavendish, 1990.
REF
910.92
EXP		 Explorers from Ancient Times to the Space Age. Edited by John Logan Allen... et al.  New York: Simon & Schuster /Macmillan, 1999.
REF
911
ATL		 Atlas of Exploration. New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
REF
920.09
GRO
V.4		 The Grolier Library of North American Biographies: Explorers  (vol. 4).  Edited by Julia Banks. Danbury, CT : Grolier Educational Corp, 1994.


SELECTED WEB SITES

Discoverers Web
http://www.win.tue.nl/cs/fm/engels/discovery/index.html
A page of links by both period of exploration and by region. In addition, at the top of the page are some more links to other explorer pages.

Explorers of the Land
http://www.bham.wednet.edu/BIO/land.htm
Links to articles mostly about European explorers of the Western Hemisphere from the Bellingham,  WA school district. 

PASSAGES--A Treasure Trove of North American  Exploration
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/2/8/index-e.html
From the National Library of Canada, this site had articles about many North American explorers, including many lesser known French explorers of Canada.

America's Explorers
http://americanhistory.about.com/cs/explorers/index.htm
From about.com, this page lists the major European explorers of America with an article about each one.

 Age of Exploration Timeline
 http://www.travelinsurancereview.net/Travel-Facts/exploration-timeline.html
Timeline and links to information about various explorers from the 1400s and 1500s.


ONLINE RESOURCES

      Infotrac -- contains databases of magazine articles, a biography resource, and health
      and  business references.  Try Reference Center Gold, Expanded Academic ASAP,
      and Biography Resource Center.

      bigchalk eLibrary -- online reference center including books, magazines, newspapers,
      pictures, maps, and TV transcripts. For biographies of explorers, use Biography Resource
      Center found here.

      Massachusetts Newsstand -- newspaper articles from the Boston Globe (1980 - current),
      Boston Herald (1991 - current), and ten other Massachusetts newspapers.

      Grolier Online -- 2 electronic encyclopedias-- New Book of Knowledge and Grolier
      Multimedia Encyclopedia.  Articles in these encyclopedias link you to other articles and
      also to relevant web sites where you can find more information on your topic.

REMOTE ACCESS

These databases are also available from home. You can gain access to these resources from home by going to the Answers...To Go! web page made available from the Northeast Massachusetts Regional Library System:

http://www.nmrls.org/answers/dbmvlc.html

and enter your public library card number (from Methuen or any MVLC member library) where you are prompted for a patron or user number.

CITING SOURCES

Using these links indicates the user is leaving 
the district server and that linked material
is not necessarily approved by the district.
Edited by Media Staff
03/04/10
Date last edited
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