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> Elementary School > boats, canoes and kayaks Riverworks Discovery: Wheel House Log Book
The Hudson, Delaware, Susquehanna, Potomac, and James Rivers are some of the most important in the
Mid-Atlantic region. These historic rivers contribute to our nation’s economy, history, and culture. This information and activity packet provides content on watersheds, early exploration of the region, the history of water travel and trade, and more.
Subject(s):
Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies
Type(s):
Lessons and Activities
Level(s):
Elementary School
Keywords:
boats, canoes and kayaks, development, air pollution and fossil fuels, culture and watermen, John Smith and colonial times, litter, trash and recycling, Native American, restoration, transportation
Waterways
As a result of this lesson, students develop a map that identifies waterways that have been important in the transportation of goods and people in the United States. Students will use color to show how the use of waterways has changed over time, and will diagram the methods of water travel through history.
Subject(s):
Language Arts, Social Studies
Type(s):
Lessons and Activities
Level(s):
Elementary School
Keywords:
boats, canoes and kayaks, culture and watermen, John Smith and colonial times, Native American, transportation
Waterways: Roads in the Water
In this lesson, students will create a model waterway and observe ways that they can modify the waterway to allow a boat to travel more easily along the water.
Subject(s):
Science, Social Studies
Type(s):
Lessons and Activities
Level(s):
Early Learning, Elementary School
Keywords:
boats, canoes and kayaks, land use, watershed, transportation
Float Your Boat
In this lesson, students will explore how different boats move in natural bodies of water by constructing simple boat models and observing how they move in a tub of water. They will use their observations to create diagrams that explain how the shape of a boat is related to the way it moves through the water.
Subject(s):
Mathematics, Science, Social Studies
Type(s):
Lessons and Activities
Level(s):
Early Learning, Elementary School
Keywords:
boats, canoes and kayaks
Colonial History Unit - Sea of Change
Sultana's Colonial History classroom unit, entitled "Sea of Change: Sultana, the Tea Taxes and the Dawn of the American Revolution," is targeted towards 4-6th grade students. The unit examines the world of pre-revolutionary America through the lens of the 1768 British Royal Navy tax collecting schooner Sultana.
Subject(s):
Language Arts, Social Studies
Type(s):
Curriculum Guide
Level(s):
Elementary School, Middle School
Keywords:
boats, canoes and kayaks, land use, culture and watermen, John Smith and colonial times, Native American
