European Sailors and Navigational Tools in the Age of Encounter and Exchange

Studying European sailors in the 1500's? Here are two good resources, both of which might work for short web quests. Here is a link to one that I made.

One includes the Mariners Museum lets you explore the instruments of exploration as well the explorers by time period.  During the Age of Discovery, you can look at short biographies of the major explorers,  and short overviews of ships like the carrack and carrack and tools like the backstaff and quadrant.

PBS World Explorers is another great resource. It uses Google Earth to show voyages of Cabot, Drake,  Magellan and Vespucci, DeGamma, and Columbus.