3rd and 4th grade students from the Santa Fe School for the Arts and Sciences in Santa Fe, New Mexico, created this book of knots as part of a learning expedition on sailing. As one part of their expedition, students studied different...

This is a delightful site about boats and boating. Lots of games plus a terrific overview of the history of navigation. Includes a visit to a reproduction of Columbus' Nina.

The Virtual Kite Zoo is devoted to kite flying and kite lore. You can learn kite terminology, how to tie proper knots--and teachers can find ideas to use kites in the classroom.

In this lesson students learn about sailing and contribute writing, illustrations, and photographs to a class book containing information about navigation equipment, the Beaufort Scale, knots, and the signal system of flags used by...

Play against a basic or an advanced competitor the game of hex, a race from one side of a patterned board to the other. This game cannot end in a tie, and it is addictive!

The thongs or bands of leather, which were tied round the hands of boxers, in order to render their blows more powerful. The cestus was used by boxers in the earliest times, and is mentioned in he Iliad; but in the heroic times it...