This supplemental resource contains one-page biographical sketches of the people and events from the Age of Exploration.  Each lesson includes a one-page biographical sketch, points to ponder, and challenges. The challenges are comprehension questions or topics to explore either through the Internet or library resources.

Topics include: da Gama, Columbus, Cabot, Balboa, Cortes, Magellcan, Pizarro, Cartier, Coronado, de Soto, Champlain, and Hudson.

For use with any social studies or history curriculum, or unit study on explorers and discoveries. Answers included in the back of the book.