Resource: Women Explorers

Description

Women have seldom been celebrated as explorers in European history and the social conditions of the 15th to 19th centuries did not encourage women to become explorers. However, for the millennia covering the rest of human history, women have explored new places along with men.

This resource looks at the history of women in exploration and the social conditions of the ‘Age of Discovery’, whilst exploring how women have re-entered the arena of exploration, of our planet and beyond. This resource aligns with Year 4, 5 and 6 Australian Curriculum History, Geography, HASS and Science.