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*These programs can be presented at the Museum or in your classroom or meeting space, and can be adapted to suit a range of ages and abilities. Please call to discuss your specific requirements. If you would like us to design a program based on your specific educational needs, or have an idea for a new topic or activity, please let us know. We’re adaptable, and we’re here to help!

Maritime Museum collaborates on Water Project Teens Education Workshop Sail on Sarah and Photograph Lewis Bay

Current Class Offerings
Intro to Boat Building for Grades 5-8 with Junior Tech SOLD OUT
Wednesdays: March 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, and April 6
6pm – 8pm
Instructor: Chris Kelly
$150

Power a Boat Using Green Technology, Grades 6-8, with Junior Tech
Are you interested in applying Green Technolgoy to boat building? During this four-day course, students will work with small electric engines, learn wiring of aDC motor, install an electric trolling motor, learn about charging batteries using solar energy, and study the advantages of using alternate energy to power an engine and techniques to properly sand and finish a vessel while protecting the environment. Students will wire the engine from the control station to the batteries and write an operations manual for technical assistance using digital photography and word processing. In addition, students will install a cable steering system, a rudder, and a canopy. Once done, go for a ride!
Four day course $160 (+$20 material fee)
8am to 12pm, Monday- Thursday July 11-14; JULY - SOLD OUT August 15-18
Class size limited to 6 students. Grades 6-8
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Safe Boating and Sailing Mini-Camp
Learn to sail as well as get a taste of history on our museum built catboat Sarah. This unique boating safety course will give kids 12 to 15 years of age hands on experience on the water. Upon successful completion a Massachusetts Safe Boating License will be issued by the state.
One week course $150
9am to 12pm Monday thru Friday
2011: July 11-15, July 18-22, July 25-29
Class size limited to 6 students.

Dead ahead with dead reckoning! With Junior Tech
Chart your own course, and sail it! Students will work in a team to plot a vessel’s course using the oldest method of navigation—dead reckoning. Educators at the Cape Cod Maritime Museum will present basic skills for marine navigation, including reading a compass, estimating vessel position and movement using mathematical equations and geometry, reading a chart’s latitude and longitude, and plotting a course. Students will evaluate and incorporate weather and oceanographic patterns into their course and pilot a course out of Hyannis Harbor aboard the Museum’s catboat Sarah.
One day course $89
August 22, 8:30am - 3:30pm
Class size limited to 6 students. Grades 6-8
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Education Program Offerings
All programs have a minimum student participation per group, which are listed with each description. Cost of programs is in addition to admissions rates, which are listed above. Program course length can be adjusted depending on desires/needs of group. Large groups (20+) generally participate in programs on a rotating basis between exhibit tours and activities, and can be accommodated with multiple programs for larger groups (35+). Contact CCMM’s Educator, Shannon Eldredge at 508-775-1723 ext. 3 or via email seldredge@capecodmaritimemuseum.org for registration details.

Program Descriptions
What Floats Your Boat?
Students age 8-14 years
Course length 1 hour
4 student minimum
This program is provided at $4/student + admission
All materials are provided by CCMM, however students are encouraged to bring recyclables from home.
Students will learn about the different materials & designs that keep boats afloat. In teams, they will design and build their own mini vessel from different recycled materials. They will then find out if their boat stays afloat on water, and will critically assess their own design, and adjust it to keep it upright. Teams will experiment with various methods of power with their designs, and discover what best moves their vessel along. They will also compete in miniature boat races.

WSI: Wreck Scene Investigation
Students age 8-12 years
Course length 1 ½ hour
8 student minimum
This program is provided at $4/student + admission
Examine and excavate the “remains” of a shipwreck. Map, record and identify the objects found, then use this information to find out more about the ship and her crew. Learn about some of the unique challenges faced by under-water researchers, not least of which is remembering to breathe! Also, discover the story and remains of the oldest recovered shipwreck in America “Sparrow Hawk.”

Harbor Plein Air Painting
All ages & abilities
Course length 1 ½ hours
No student minimum; all materials provided.
This program is provided at $6/student + admission
CCMM is located directly on Hyannis Harbor, one of the busiest inner waterways on the Cape, with fishing vessels, passenger ferries, and pleasure craft of all different shapes & sizes. Students can observe many aspects of working waterfront vessels through Plein Air painting. In this artistic activity, students will choose a vantage point behind the museum that gives them the perspective they desire to create a painting of boats in action or docked, passengers coming & going, houses along the coast or active shorebirds in the sky & skimming the harbor.

Instructed—Harbor Plein Air Painting
Ages 10+; All abilities
Course length 3 hours
4 student minimum
This program is provided at $20/student + admission
See “Harbor Plein Air Painting” description. Additionally, your group will be instructed on perspective, watercolor techniques, color interpretation, and the art of creative freedom.

Nautical Navigation
Ages 12+
Course length 2 hours
10 student minimum
This program is provided at $6/student + admission
Using Cape Cod nautical charts & traditional instruments, educators will present basic skills for marine navigation, including reading a compass, depth finding, estimating vessel position and movement using mathematical equations and geometry, reading a chart’s latitude and longitude and minutes & degrees, and plotting a course. Students will learn how to plot a vessel’s course using the oldest method of navigation—dead reckoning. Each team will create a chart of an area (classroom, outdoor space, hallway), and navigate through it, finding their own ‘vessel’s’ position.

Dead Ahead! Nautical Navigation Underway
Ages 12+
Course length 3 hours
3 student minimum/6 student maximum
This program is provided at $45/student (includes admission costs)
Chart your own course & sail it! Students will plot a course using the oldest method of navigation—dead reckoning. Learn the basic skills of marine navigation, including reading a compass & chart, estimating vessel position and movement, and then piloting a course into Lewis Bay aboard CCMM’s historic Crosby Catboat replica Sarah. By incorporating weather & oceanographic patterns, vessel speed, and wind direction, students will sail & navigate as a team with each participant playing the role of a crewmember. CCMM’s Coast Guard licensed Captain will provide basic boating safety information to the team, as they all sail dead ahead!

Model Fish Weir
Ages 11+
4 student minimum
Course length varies on group’s needs, size, and time frame. This course is generally offered over three 2-hour sessions, but can be modified to fit the needs of the group.
This program is provided at $45/student (includes admission costs)
Fishermen on Cape Cod have been using fish weirs for hundreds of years. It is a sustainable and ecologically-friendly way to fish the ocean. In this course, students will learn the inner workings of a fish weir, and build their very own model weir in scale. Instructors will teach the students how to scale the dimensions of a weir, as well as basic geometry and ancient technology.

Working Waterfront Mural Project
Ages 8+
4 student minimum
Course length varies on group’s needs, size, and time frame. This course is generally offered over four 2-hr sessions, but can be modified to fit the needs of the group.
This program is provided at $45/student (includes admission costs)
The Hyannis working waterfront is full of artistic inspiration. Artists from all over the world flock here and to other ports around the Cape to find scenic harbor front subjects to paint or photograph. Gateway & Hyannis Marinas, directly behind Cape Cod Maritime Museum, harbor these scenes and are also full of mathematical inspiration, believe it or not! Aspiring and undiscovered artists can experience artistic expression, while honing their geometry & measurement skills by collaboratively creating a working waterfront mural.

• Students will spend the first session strolling along the harbor, and taking photographs of all the different vessels working along the water—passenger ferries, sail boats, fishing boats, and pleasure craft.
• The second session will be spent choosing a photo, and plotting it on the space of a large mural board (probably two pieces of ply wood strapped together). Students will learn how to scale a small photograph to a larger space. They will also learn how to accurately render shapes and angles. Instructors will have emphasized that students focus on taking photos of rigging, fishing gear, hull shapes, rather than long shots of the seascape.
• The final two sessions will be devoted to painting in the lines of their renderings, and making the mural a cohesive piece of art. Students will work side-by-side, in close proximity, and need to share space and materials. From time to time, they will step away from their work, stand back, and do some self-critiquing. Instructors will provide techniques and suggestions about the process.
• The final product will be a complete 4’X8’, mobile mural that can be displayed at the school, museum, or in any show that would take it!

(If the students do not complete their work at the end of the last session, the instructors will try their best to fulfill the direction of the artist’s space so that the mural can be a presentable artwork)

Cape Captain’s Log
Ages 8+
4 student minimum
Course length 1 ½ hour
This program is provided at $4/student + admission
Cape Cod was home to many sea captains who sailed around the globe trading and whaling in the 19th century. Captains often brought their families on board who would participate in the Captain’s Log book, which detailed weather conditions, cultural exchanges, and accounting for trading activities. Students will view replicated pages from log books and try to decipher what was written. They will also track a voyage as a Cape Cod captain or family member around the world, and use certain tools to make their own log books, including creating their own whale stamps, choosing a trade that a 19th century Cape Cod sea captain was invested in and making mock trades with them.

Hand-Line Fishing Reel
Ages 5+
No minimum/maximum student
Course length 45 minutes
This program is provided at $4/student + admission
This program shows how to build your own hand-line fishing reel, using recycled materials in honor of Earth Day Week. Create a shiny lure, and fasten it to your reel. Then try your hand reel at fishing on the pier at Gateway Marina on Hyannis Harbor, located a few walking steps directly behind the museum!

Scrimshaw & Shell Sailors’ Valentines
Ages 5+
No minimum/maximum student
Course length 45 minutes
This program is provided at $4/student +admission
Long ago, sailors from Cape Cod traveled around the world on trading voyages. Learn how Scrimshaw & Sailors' Valentines came to Cape Cod in the 1800s. Make your own Scrimshaw ornament  as the centerpiece of your  design, then create a Sailors’ Valentine around it with colorful and organic shells on an octagon-shaped base.