James Cook Interactive Biography
By Micah's Learning Resources
He mapped more of the Pacific than any explorer before him, from New Zealand to Hawaii to the Arctic, and he did it with a surgeon, a botanist, and orders to treat every unknown people with courtesy. This interactive biography gives students the full James Cook: a farm boy who became the greatest navigator of the age of sail, a captain whose voyages changed the map of the world and brought the Pacific into European view. What's Included: - Five life eras with public domain paintings and engravings by the voyage artists Hodges, Webber and Sporing, from the Yorkshire farm through the three great Pacific voyages, the mapping of New Zealand and the east coast of Australia, and the death on a Hawaii beach - A dual-track timeline that sets Cook's own life against the world he moved through: the Seven Years' War, the founding of Botany Bay, the American Revolution, and the Pacific voyages of his rivals - All three Pacific voyages drawn on a real world map with direction arrows and ten place markers, including the first crossing of the Antarctic Circle and the search for the Northwest Passage from the Pacific side - A twenty-node connections web of the people, ships and events around him: Joseph Banks, the Tahitian navigator Tupaia, the Royal Society, the Hawaiian chief Kalaniopuu - Four primary sources with the evidence weighed for students, each paired with a caution about what the document can and cannot prove, plus close reading prompts - A fifteen-question check for understandin
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