Extensions for Students

Print version of "Captain John Smith's Chesapeake Bay": PDF • Word

Use the Virtual Jamestown website's "John Smith Voyages of Exploration" map to follow the path of Smith's two voyages to explore the Bay region.
Research estuaries and find how salinity affects organisms in the water. Learn what factors help establish the salinity levels in water and how the salinity varies from season to season. (See Using the Library Media Center for Project Research and Using the World Wide Web for Project Research in the Project Action Guide.)
Visit one of the places John Smith describes in his Generall Historie.