TREASURE TROVE of SCIENCE! (AIE)
NEW PROGRAM! A live-streamed STEAM residency for remote learning. Designed for in-home, at-school or after-school enrichment programs.
Grades 2-5. Daily sessions run 90-minutes.
“Who knew learning science was so much fun?!”
-R. Corsi, Presenter, C.A.P.A The Lincoln Theatre, Columbus, OH
CURIOSITY IS THE TREASURE.
Pirate School: Treasure Trove of Science!
Remote Learning suitable for in-home or in-school and after-school programs.
Downloadable activity directions and materials list provided.
A LA CARTE: Individual day of 90 minutes. Choose 1-4 days of programming. Topics selected from the Science of Pirates! A Treasure Trove of Science’s menu.
STEAM WEEK: Residency of 90-minutes per day x 5 days Topics selected from the Science of Pirates! A Treasure Trove of Science’s menu.
Grades 2-5.
Pirate School: Treasure Trove of Science! offers up vital STEAM curriculum with a captivating nautical twist. Dive into this LIVE experience and explore the seven seas with special guest experts from around the globe!
According to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Oceanographic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), we know more about the surface of the planet Mars, than we know of our own ocean’s depths. Pirate School: Treasure Trove of Science’s primary aim is to change that. With this fun, innovative and engaging enrichment program, students will be inspired to learn more about the seas, oceans, rivers, and waterways unique to our beloved blue planet, Earth.
Pirate School: A Treasure Trove of Science! offers a range from daily STEAM themes designed as either a week-long program or a la carte options for single day programs. A Treasure Trove of Science! will challenge and encourage students with collaborative activities, engaging experiments and demonstrations, and visits with expert special guests, all led by the affable pirate Professor Billy Bones, the headmaster of Pirate School! Students will explore watery realms of all shapes and sizes—from the deepest oceans to our kitchen faucets. Balancing study with swashbuckling, students will enjoy comic interludes and participatory pirate lessons!
Why a pirate at the helm and not a lab-coat wearing scientist?
Ever since early humans launched the first log raft and braved the watery parts of our world, seafarers have pushed knowledge and technology forward. Sailors were the first explorers, meteorologists, engineers, mathematicians, and stargazers, so who better than a pirate to get students more excited about science?
CURIOSITY IS THE BASIS OF ALL GOOD SCIENCE.
Curious? Scroll down for a sample schedule and list of special guest experts.
Sample Weekly Schedule
Pirate School! A Treasure Trove of Science
Monday: Anchors Aweigh! (The Science of Sailing)
Discover: How does a giant pirate ship move? How does it stay afloat?
Explore: Buoyancy, Air Pressure, The Bernoulli Effect (Lift) and how the wind is made
Lesson/Activity: Draw Atmospheric Convection; Build a Bathtub Boat
Guest: A real sea-captain (TBD from list)
Tuesday: Things That Go BOOM! (All-Ages Physics)
Discover: How does a cannon work?
Explore: Force; Kinetic Energy/Momentum; The Magnus Effect (A Sphere in Flight); Newtons Cradle.
Lesson/Activity: Propulsion by air and kinetic energy; Ping-Pong ball & paper towel roll experiment.
Guest: Lou Hernandez, professional cannon specialist
Wednesday: Water, Water Everywhere! (Water Conservation and Awareness)
Discover: Our relationship to the Earth’s Water.
Explore: The Water Cycle; How a wave is made; Percentage of water available to Humanity; The Scourge of Plastics in our Seas.
Lesson/Activity: Make and color the Earths Water Map; Global Water Percentage Cup; Make a Wave Bottle.
Guest: Mara Hasline, Sailing Eco-Artist and Oceanographer
Thursday: Where in the World Are We? (Math and Mapmaking)
Explore: How sailors used math to navigate and make maps
Discover: Floating Seaweed to GPS: Telling time in the Age of Exploration; “Dead Reckoning:” A math solution that saves sailors lives; Fractions of the Globe: Mapmaking in Math making.
Lesson/Activity: SOS-How long till we get there? Make a Knot Heaving Line; Make a Map of your Room and Plot a Course to Bed.
Guest: A real sea-captain (TBD from list)
Friday: Heave Ho! (Simple Machines and Engineering)
Explore: How did sailors move those heavy cannon, cargo and sails with ropes?
Discover: Simple Machines; Mechanical Advantage; The Power of the Pulley.
Lesson/Activity: Use a Lever, make a thread-spool and coat hanger pulley and lift various objects.
Guest: A real sea-captain (TBD from list)
Special Guest Expert List
Pirate School! A Treasure Trove of Science
Professional Stuntwoman Judi Lewis-Ockler is a real stuntwoman based in NY, who has worked in film, television and as a fight director/action consultant on stages across the country.
Capt. David Sharps is the captain and owner of the Waterfront Museum in Red Hook, Brooklyn, a 125-year-old floating railway barge which serves as a museum of New York waterways and an education center (as well as his home).
Capt. Aaron Singh, a child of the Bronx, NY, Capt. Singh learned his craft on the East River with the NY Sea Scouts. He has helmed tall ships across the globe, as well as the historical Schooner Pioneer, the 1930’s tugboat W.O Decker, and the popular tourist speedboat The Beast in the busy maritime corridor of New York harbor.
Capt. Christopher Ockler is an accomplished shipwright (wooden ship builder) and has crewed on ocean-going tall ships. He is the current captain of the historical Tugboat W.O Decker of the South Street Seaport, NY. For more than a decade, Mr. Ockler co-owned two wooden sailboats with Pirate School’s very own, David Engel.
Capt. Carlos Canario is an accomplished tall-ship and sail-training captain who helms tall-ships from Haiti to Panama to the far South Seas. Mr. Canario doubled as a pirate and crewmember on the popular television series, Crossbones. Captain Canario currently lives and works on the azure waters of Kwajalein Atoll in the far South Pacific.
Lou Hernandez, Cannon Historian/Blackpowder Specialist, has been a historical weapons specialist and pirate reenactor for more than 15 years. He is a sought-after visiting teaching-artist and performer.
Other guest artists TBD.
