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Sailing, Sailing

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this Christopher Columbus worksheet, students discuss 3 questions about ships and Christopher Columbus. Students then color the image of the ship.
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Curated OER

Sail on the Vocabulary Ship

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students make paper ships on which to identify and write root words, prefixes and suffixes.
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National Sailing Hall of Fame

Sailboat Design Requirements

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
Sailboat design requires more than a half-circle and triangle sketch. After viewing a slideshow presentation that outlines the requirements for sailboat design, learners draw a design, perform the needed calculations, and write a paper...
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Curated OER

Building Boats

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students research different types of boats in various time periods and cultures. Then they locate photographs and information about construction details of one type of boat. Students also use their research as the basis for designing and...
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Christopher Columbus

For Teachers 1st
Help first graders gain an understanding of the beginnings of our nation by learning more about Christopher Columbus. They begin by listening to a read aloud of Christopher Columbus and His Voyage to the New World (another title could be...
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Curated OER

Pablo Picasso Collage

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students read the story SAIL AWAY by Donald Crew to show different pictures of water and oceans. They are then introduced to a collage showing examples of Picasso's work. They construct a collage using different methods.
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Kelly's Kindergarten

Kelly's Kindergarten: The N Ending

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
Never fear, N is here! Practice matching words that end in the letter N with their corresponding pictures. Kids glue the words onto the sails of a ship that include each picture.
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Homophones

For Teachers 2nd
Use this resource to provide learners with a quick review of common homophones. Learners read words, such as sail and sale, and identify the correct usage. It is a fun way to discuss this topic.
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Curated OER

Block & Tackle

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students participate in a lab experiment in which they discover the need for so many blocks and tackles on sailing ships. In groups, they make and test their predictions and practice measuring objects in various units. They record and...
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Smithsonian Institution

Reflections of the Sea

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Young scholars, after listening to a selection of Gulliver's Travels, complete a worksheet about basic terms associated with boats, ships, and sailing. They create flag after researching semaphore flagging systems.
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Curated OER

Designing Windmills

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers study mechanical engineering and how it plays a part in the creation of windmills. They design and test their own windmills using various materials and sail designs.
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Curated OER

Ships to a New World

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students experiment with buoyancy as a force. In this buoyancy lesson, students access an assigned website to examine the sailing vessels that came to the New World. They work as teams to build boats out of aluminum foil to see which...
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Curated OER

Mayflower Craft

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students create a Mayflower craft object. In this visual arts lesson, students cut out sails and waves from construction paper and glue Popsicle sticks to the sails.
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Curated OER

Word Search -ail

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this word search worksheet, students find 14 words ending in "ail." Words include nail, frail, ail, mail, trail, sail, and detail.
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Reach Out!

Paper Clip Sailing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explain that some things can float on top of water because of what we call "surface tension." They see that if something happens to disturb these water molecules from tugging on each other, the skin-like surface breaks up.
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Curated OER

Sailing West: Admiral Zheng He's Voyages

For Students 4th - 6th
In this Zheng He worksheet, learners read about the famous Chinese explorer Zheng He and answer fill in the blanks and short answer questions about him. Students complete 22 questions total.
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Read Works

Columbus Was an Explorer

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
Get the inside scoop on the European explorer, Christopher Columbus, with a response to reading activity that requires scholars to answer who, what, why, when, and a variety of other questions about the word crew.  
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Curated OER

The Sarantine Mosaic: Fiction and History

For Students 9th - 12th
Be sure your readers understand The Sarantine Mosaic with this quiz. Multiple-choice but still detailed, the assessment provides answers once it is submitted online. Make sure students have finished reading before they take this quiz or...
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NOAA

Who’s Blue Peter?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Scholars discover who Blue Peter is and how sailors used nautical signal flags on the open waters in order to create their own set of nautical signal flags and send messages to peers.
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Curated OER

How to be a Great Navigator!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine historical methods of navigation. They discuss the techniques of "Dead Reckoning," "Heaving the Log," and "Chip Log," pretend to sail from Europe to North America using vectors and determine the location of their...
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Curated OER

Hang on Homophones!

For Students K - 1st
In this homophones worksheet, students match the picture with the correct word. Homophones include one-won, wail-whale, sail-sale, etc.
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Curated OER

Homophones Puzzle

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this homophone worksheet, students solve a jigsaw puzzle by matching homophones with their correct words. Example include rode-rowed, sale-sail, etc.
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Winkpass Creations

Knot Guide HD

For Students 6th - Higher Ed
Did you know that there are over 100 types of knots? Learn how to tie them all with this step-by-step, colorfully illustrated guide!
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Curated OER

Sailing on to fluently reading

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Student increase their reading fluency using various strategies. After reviewing good reader strategies , students, working with a partner, complete an initial read of a novel text. With the instructor, they read complete a timed...

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