Chapter 7 Lesson 5 Inquiry

Inquiry

Why did the Europeans first come to the Arctic region ?

1. Textbook
   
• Read pages 205 - 206.
  
  
2. Websites
   
• World Book Encyclopedia (Online Learning Resource Centre) Northwest Passage

• U. K. National Maritime Museum – Sir John Franklin
• History.Com:  Search for the Northwest Passage
• Maps of the Northwest Passage
  
  
• Edmund James Peck 
• Arctic poems, songs, stories
3. Videos
• Search for the Northwest Passage
• The Northwest Passage
  This video shows the routes of ships that tried to find the Northwest Passage many years ago.
• Henry Hudson CBS
• Whaling
  This video shows what often happened when people went whaling.
• Northwest Passage Stan Rogers

  Digging Deeper

You may be interested in reading library books about the lost Franklin expedition.

• Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition by Owen Beattie
• Buried in Ice by Owen Beattie and John Geiger
  

Complete the First Europeans Quiz.  Use your textbook for help to answer each of the questions with a complete sentence.

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