Captain James Cook Notebooking Pages
Here are some free notebooking pages for your elementary and middle school students to use when studying the famous British explorer and navigator, Captain James Cook.
These Captain Cook Notebooking pages are perfect for many different types of writing assignments in various subjects.
Captain James Cook, a British captain in the Royal Navy, was the first European to find the eastern shore of Australia, the Hawaiian Islands, New Zealand’s South Island, and more. Your students can write about his discoveries and his life of exploration.
These notebooking pages are generally for students working at the 2nd to 8th grade levels.
Students can research and write about Captain Cook’s circumnavigation of Antarctica, how he mapped most of the Pacific Ocean, and is considered by some people to have been the greatest navigator of all times.
Your students could also write about his many adventures around the world.
These Explorer notebooking pages are included in our Mr. Popper’s Penguins Unit Study bundle in the HHO shop.
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Resources for Learning about the Explorer, Captain Cook
Library List
Most books about Captain Cook are Out of Print at this time. Check your local library’s biography section to see what they have. Books are listed in order of reading difficulty:
Meet Captain Cook by Chris Nixon
Captain James Cook (Great Explorers) by Enid Broderick Also on Open Library
The Journals of Captain Cook by James R. Cook (Primary source: best for teens and adults)
Videos
Captain James Cook’s Endeavor ⛵️ Ships for Kids
Captain James Cook (note: this is segment one of four very short videos, click on the next one as each ends)
Captain Cook: Master of the Seven Seas
Captain Cook, Famous Explorer, Notebooking Pages
The Captain Cook notebooking and journaling pages come in 3 levels to fit all of your students’ needs. There’s a large elementary lined one, a smaller elementary lined one, and a regular lined one.
Some of the notebooking page comes in black/white in case you are trying to save on printer ink costs (or you can print in grayscale). There are a total of 15 notebooking pages in this packet.
These printables feature vintage portraits of Captain Cook, as well as maps and drawings of his adventures.
The notebooking printables cover these topics:
- Captain James Cook
- Three Global Voyages
- Captain Cook, Navigator
- Cook’s ship Endeavor
- Captain Cook’s Adventures
Download your copy of the Captain Cook Notebooking Pages from the Free Resource Library. Look under Individual Notebooking > Biographies
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More Famous Explorers Resources
You might also like our Label the Parts of a Ship worksheet, Sir Francis Drake Notebooking pages, or our Christopher Columbus Notebooking Pages
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