Lessons focus on navigation, cartography, and magnetism with practical activities and curriculum. This inventive workshop provides students with hands on activities demonstrating basic concepts in Physics. Specially created lesson plans are designed to complement each of the 'Mechanics of Seafaring' exhibit modules aboard the Star of India. With the help of our ships' engineers, students get a real appreciation of the mechanics as well as the fundamentals of energy, heat and steam as they turn over the triple expansion engine. This workshop traces the invention of steam power through the industrial revolution.
Students get the chance to power and race small steamboats that they take home.
The instructors are historic crewmembers in costume and character. Day and overnight programs are available. This program takes students on a voyage of discovery aboard the historic 1914 Pilot Boat. Students have the hands-on opportunity to help with the ship's navigation, and perform water quality experiments while exploring the bay. Students will come home with a greater understanding of the bay's economic history and the vital role its resources play in our city's economy while learning about past and present bay resource management issues.