Grade Range: K-4Resource Type(s): Lessons & Activities, WorksheetsDuration: 50 MinutesDate Posted: 5/21/2009
What kinds of food do you eat? How do the foods you eat today compare to the types of foods that sailors ate during long voyages of the past? In this activity, students will cook one or more historical maritime recipes and then compare the foods they eat to what was served on ships in the past. Included in an OurStory module entitled Life on the Water, this activity is intended to help children and adults enjoy exploring history together through the use of children's literature, everyday objects, and hands-on activities.
Hands-on learning, Museum education, Thematic approach
In the early nineteenth century, lighthouses in the United States were considered inferior to tho...
picture book, family, OurStory, reading, transportation, ocean, water, sailing, shipping, sailor, family activity, literacy, boat, maritime, Our Story, canal, ship, parent guide, Maritime history, children’s literature
In the winter of 1856, a storm delays the lighthouse keeper's return to an island off the coast o...
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