Field Trip To Maritime Museum
Goals:
1. Students will receive first hand knowledge of ships and their history.
Resources:
1. A maritime museum. Check the internet site http://www.pacifier.com/~rboggsllinks.html/#seafarers for a listing of museums that may be near you.
2. Any resources the museum would be able to give you to prepare for this visit.
Time:
This lesson requires 4-8 hours depending on the distance needed to travel and the museum tour schedule.
Procedure:
Introduction: Students will visit a site with primary sources available for inquiry.
Step 1 In preparation for the trip a discussion should be held on what the students think they will find at the museum, what they hope to learn there and maybe have a hand out of questions that the students could look for answers to while on the tour. (If the museum has this available or if you have been to the museum a head of time.)
Step 2 The next day have students write about what they learned from the trip in their journal.
Assessment:
1. Journal (Criteria for success = see journal rubric)
2. If there was a sheet of questions given to you by the museum have the students hand in. (Criteria for success = X number are completed.)
Curricular Strands and Major Concepts:
1. Social Studies - History of ships and social interaction and behavior.
2. Language arts - Writing in journal.
Possible Extensions:
1. Write reports on what they learned.
2. Build a museum for your classroom.
3. This lesson is vague do to the discrepancies that would arise in the location and type of museum the class is attending.