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Maritime History Lesson Plans
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Students compare and contrast the Caribbean region in 1492 with the same region today , and use five themes of geography as avenues of comparison.
Students discover the reasons for the settlement of the Connecticut Hill Community. Through an examination of the climate, occupations of the inhabitants, and demographics, they discuss reasons people choose locations for settlement. The instructional activity includes writing essays describing what makes neighborhoods through comparing and contrasting two of them.
Students examine the changes in the North Carolina coastline thousands of years ago. They determine the coastline's position during the Paleo-Indian and Archaic periods. Students complete an activity sheet about the various sea levels in time periods.
Learners study the St. Roch sea voyage through text, images, and virtual tour. In this maritime history lesson, students take a virtual tour to study the sea voyage of St. Roch. Learners learn about the Arctic environment and the innovative design features that allowed the ship to survive the crushing ice through its voyage. Students study pictures and diagrams and then select one activity to complete relating to the lesson.
In two groups, students research the history and current building of clipper ships. In this inquiry lesson, students present information and compare and contrast the technological revolution with the development of clipper ships. Students design project's depicting voyages. Students create proposals to donors to provide funding for the Shining Sea Foundation to maintain a full scale American clipper Ship.
Students review vocabulary related to the Halifax Explosion, a maritime explosion responsible for killing 1600 and injuring over 9000. They participate in discussion and write an account of the incident.
Students recognize the basic shapes (triangles, squares, parallelograms, etc.). They visit the USS Constitution, a historical sailing ship in Charlestown, MA and work on their map reading abilities, identify shapes in the "real world" and apply their basic physics to "real world" situations.
