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Mapping It Out - Great Lessons For Geography

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Through geography lesson plans students can learn about history, science, and a variety of other subjects.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Sailing

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Curriculum teaching the skills necessary to understand the sport of sailing. Website includes suggested readings, lecture notes, and video demonstrations.
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Sailing Into History

For Students 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about Michael Perham, the British teenager who became the youngest person to sail alone across the Atlantic Ocean. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in...
Website
International Olympic Committee

International Olympic Committee: Sailing

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Learn about the parts of a sailboat, the positions of competitors, the sailing course in the Summer Olympics, and the types of boats in competition.
Interactive
Other

Sail Safe

For Students 9th - 10th
"Get your sailing skills the fun way on our Sail Safe pages." The National Maritime Museum promotes safe sailing with this interactive lesson and game.
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Other

American Society for Engineering Education: E Gfi: Lesson: Made to Sail

For Teachers 2nd - 7th
Learners use simple materials to design and make model sailboats that must stay upright and sail straight in a testing tank.
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Sailing Into History

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about Michael Perham, the youngest person to sail across the Atlantic Ocean alone. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Sail Problem (Parallel Lines & Segment Relationships)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students will explore the proportional relationships involved in multiple parallel lines being cut by transversals. These relationships are approached through exploration of a sail design problem, where students are to...
eBook
Children's Books Online

Children's Books Online: Blue Nets and Red Sails

For Students 2nd - 5th
"Blue Nets and Red Sails", written in 1936 by Helen Bradley Preston, has been digitized and made available by the Rosetta Project. This 23 page book is appropriate for early readers.
Website
Other

Salariya: You Wouldn't Want to Sail on the Whaling Ship Essex!

For Students 9th - 10th
This online book for younger readers tells pitfalls of sailing on a New England whaling ship. Although a cartoon format, it contains valid and useful information about whaling in New England.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Sailing on the Wind

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This is a hands-on lesson that uses science and the steps of the Engineering Design Process to determine important properties in sail design materials and learn how to harness wind power. Young scholars will learn that a problem can be...
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Teachers:dragonfly Tv Cup

For Students 3rd - 8th
Apply knowledge of motion, forces and lift while sailing a boat around a race course.
Website
Special Olympics

Special Olympics: Sailing

For Students 9th - 10th
Page from the Special Olympics site provides information on saililng and a coaching guide.
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Curious George Stem: Sail a Boat Lesson Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
An hands-on lesson where students create a wind powered boat with their knowledge of reusing, recycling of materials, and wind power.
Graphic
Other

New Bedford Whaling Museum: Norman Fortier Photo Images of Sailing Vessels

For Students 9th - 10th
Features a collection of photos pertaining to the whaling industry by Norman Fortier that were exhibited at the New Bedford Whaling Museum.
Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Curious George: Sail a Boat

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In the Curious George video Junky Monkey, George sees treasures where others see trash. He transforms his junk collection into a masterpiece- reusing and recycling items from the street. Will the mayor declare George and his friends the...
Lesson Plan
Other

Uss Constitution Museum: Room to Set Sail

For Students 5th - 8th
This is a USS Constitution Museum resource that has students compare the area of the size of the sails of the USS Constitution as it compares to their classroom.
Website
Other

New Bedford Whaling Museum: William Bradford: Sailing Ships and Arctic Seas

For Students 9th - 10th
Online exhibit of the life and work of nineteenth-century American marine artist William Bradford, whose lifelong interest in the sea led him north from New Bedford to Labrador and to the Arctic Ocean. See examples of Bradford's...
Website
PBS

Pbs Kids: Dragonfly Tv: How Can You Sail in Outer Space?

For Students 3rd - 8th
Sailing is easy, if you have water. But can you use a sail where there isn't any water? PBS site invites you to come along with Sarina and Mia to explore if it is possible to use a sail in outer space.
Activity
University of Virginia Library

Prism: "Sailing to Byzantium" Visualization

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have highlighted an excerpt from William Butler Yeats' "Sailing to Byzantium." Details that show aging are blue, nature imagery details are red, and body descriptions are...
Website
Other

Royal National Lifeboat Institute

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a British organization that promotes and teaches about sailing. It is a non-profit group dedicated to sailing.
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Sailing the Seas

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the Santa Maria, Christopher Columbus' ship. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Lesson Plan
Everything ESL

Everything Esl: In 1492, Columbus Sailed the Ocean Blue

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Help your ESL students understand the role of Columbus in the history of America. Take the opportunity to teach map skill. This lesson plans include the TESOL standards and many downloads.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Sailing Through the Fog: Solving Systems of Linear Equations

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Tracking equipment is used to help ship navigators traveling in dense fog determine if they are in danger of colliding with other ships that may be in the area. For this activity, we are going to assume two ships are traveling along...

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