Make your own discoveries about the man, the voyage,
and the day in his honor by following the links below.
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Famous People - Christopher Columbus
Read an online book and take a quiz - very kid friendly! -
Christopher Columbus: Explorers and Leaders
Clear info, especially good for parents/teachers to read to children - Christopher Columbus at Enchanted Learning
- Columbus Day Crafts and Activities at Enchanted Learning
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Celebrate Columbus Day at the Holiday Zone
Be sure to check out the fun online word searches (under Puzzles). -
Was Christopher Columbus Smart About Safety?
Great page - be sure to check out links at bottom, including how to make a quadrant - Columbus Timeline
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The Columbus Navigation Homepage
Excellent background information on many aspects -
Christopher Columbus - Man and Myth
Includes his coat of arms - A to Z Teacher Stuff Columbus Day Theme
- Columbus Day Activities from abcteach
- Make a Christopher Columbus Timeline
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Columbus Day at the Busy Teachers Cafe
Very Good! - Columbus Day at Teacher Planet
- Columbus Day Activities and Games
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Christopher Columbus Webquest
Written for third graders - Columbus Wordsearch to print and solve
- Columbus Day Game to make
- Columbus Day Reader’s Theater
- Download a Play about Columbus
- Learn about the Santa Maria model in Columbus, Ohio
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The Indians' Discovery of Columbus
A curriculum unit from the Natives perspective - Encounter by Jane Yolen Lesson Plan
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Christopher Columbus
Written by older students - excerpts from Columbus’ “journal” -
Read-Write-Think - Celebrate Columbus Day!
Lesson idea about creating a Book of Privileges -
Social Studies for Kids - Christopher Columbus
Many links to information -
European Explorers: Christopher Columbus
Written especially for fifth and sixth grade students and their teachers
Contact Ms. Jacoby.
To our class website Window to Our World
Be sure to see the map of Columbus' route below.
