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Grade |
Topic/Title |
Overview |
Keywords |
| 2-9 | Nautical Science: Signal Flags and Codes | Students make sets of nautical signal flags and use them to communicate in the classroom. | signal flags, communication at sea, codes |
| 4 | Learn about your county | Students will collect information about their county and surrounding counties and enter that information into a graphic organizer. | |
| 4 | North Carolina living through photos | Examine a historical photo for clues it is set in the past. Predict what changes they think have happened in a specific setting in North Carolina over time. Identify these changes as social, political or economic. | |
| 4 | Blackbeard: The most feared pirate of the Atlantic | Students will aquire facts about Blackbeard and his life with the use of technology. Students will apply their knowledge to write a newspaper article concerning the life of Blackbeard and his influence on the North Carolina coast. | |
| 4-6 | Mock Shipwreck: An exercise in Maritime Archaeology |
Students will gather data from physical clues. Students will learn to form hypotheses based on observed data. Students will map a mock underwater archaeological site. Students will discuss the importance of preserving shipwrecks intact. Students will use the data gathered to develop evidence |
Maritime Archaeology, Triangulation site plan, baseline, datum point, bow, stern, port, starboard, artifact, keel, preservation |
| 6-8 | Exploring Maritime History: "Monitor" and "Hunley" | This lesson will focus on our maritime heritage by having students explore the shipwrecks of the Monitor and Thunder Bay national marine sanctuaries. Students will explore the history of the Monitor National Marine Sanctuary through video footage and an interview | |
| 6-8 | Pirate Archaeology | This lesson reviews students' understanding of where where pirates worked and what their motivations were. It asks students to consider where they might look for sunken pirate ships and what they would expect to find on such ships. Students will pretend to be historians seeking funding for expeditions to search for pirate ships and write up their plans. | |
| 8 | Early NC Exploration | Students will focus on the European perspective of exploration and findings along the North Carolina coast. Write down their impressions of the original inhabitants of NC. | |
