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Duration: 75 minutes
How do people—and animals—find their way across vast distances? Students will explore navigation and migration through hands-on tools, games, and collaborative challenges that connect Chesapeake Bay species, ocean ecosystems, and the ways humans and animals have navigated the world around them.
Navigating Like a Mariner
In our International Small Craft Center, students will learn how to use historical and modern navigational tools used by humans, then share what they have learned with their classmates.
Mental Maps and Marvelous Connections
Students will be challenged to make a mental map and compare their skills to an iconic Chesapeake Bay species: the osprey. Then, students will make connections to create food webs, discussing what happens when these relationships are disrupted by humans.
What Is It Like to Be a Shark?
Students will learn about shark science and migration perils by taking on the role of the sharks in a life-sized board game that challenges them to navigate the oceans through a high-stakes game.
By connecting food webs, navigation, and human impacts on our environment, students will put classroom science into motion across real marine environments and careers.
Teachers will have the choice of a docent-led tour or a self-guided, themed scavenger hunt through the galleries to complete the experience.
Learning Objectives
- Students will practice communication skills by teaching their peers how to use a randomly-assigned navigational tool.
- Students will define migration and list up to two reasons why organisms migrate.
- Students will create a food web including up to three organisms in the Chesapeake Bay.
- Students will explore marine science and shark biology careers through discussion and gameplay.
Science (VDOE 2018):
- Elementary: 4.1, 4.2 (a, b), 4.3 (a, b), 4.4 (b, c), 4.7 (b, c), 4.8 (a, b), 5.1
- Middle: LS.1, LS.4 (a), LS.5 (b, c), LS.6 (a, c,)
Next Generation Science Standards:
- Next Generation Science Standards:
- 5-LS2-LS1, 5-ESS3-1
Ocean Literacy Principles:
- 1) The Earth has one big ocean with many features
- 2) The ocean and life in the ocean shape the features of the Earth
- 5) The ocean supports a great diversity of life and ecosystems
- 6) The oceans and humans are inextricably interconnected
Pricing:
Payment can be made before the program, or we can invoice following your program.
- Programs at the Museum are $4.50 per student.
All adults accompanying a field trip are free. - Programs at your location are $4.50 per student.
- Virtual education programs are $125 per program.
Reservations are required for all programs and are booked on a first-come, first-served basis. Programs fill quickly in the fall and spring, so make your reservations a minimum of two weeks in advance.
Need some questions answered?
Our team is happy to answer any questions you may have, or recommend the best program for your class.
Call or email our Education team:
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(757) 591-7745
