The Boatworks curriculum uses local New York harbor history, environmental education, communications projects, and small-scale boat building to develop literacy, science, mathematics and technical skills. This curriculum would fit in beautifully with any studies of NYC's history or science and technology projects. Some student-constructed products will be small scale rowboats, a PSA concerning the hazards of storm sewer overflow, and a guide to the local flora and fauna. View these on other pages on our site in the spring of 2001. The focus of our hands-on scientific inquiry is the Harlem and East Rivers.
Specialists are available to mentor students in specific areas as they develop their projects.
East River CREW 's mission is to impart a love for and an understanding of, the waters of our community. We hope these thirty students become our first class of graduating stewards of the river. To this end, various activities are planned. Creating a Public Service Announcement on an issue important to teenagers, but little understood. Swimming and fishing in local waters has always been tempting, especially since waters have become cleaner.