Pupils in 5th and 6th are currently doing a project on famous explorers.
They are studying :
Christopher Columbus
Vasco De Gama
Ferdinand Magellan
Bartolomeu Dias
Sir Walter Raleigh
Marco Polo
Useful websites are :
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/indexa.shtml
http://school.eb.co.uk/
http://www.ducksters.com/biography/explorers/
http://allaboutexplorers.com/explorers/