Fall 2006

SULTANA DAY-SAIL SATURDAY SEMINAR 9/06

A day-sail on the Schoolship Sultana gives teachers of American history an opportunity to both learn about Chesapeake Bay history and discover new ways to engage students in the Colonial era. During the Schooner Sultana's exciting Saturday Seminars, teachers spend the day sailing aboard an authentic replica of a Colonial vessel owned by the British Royal Navy to enforce the hated “Tea Taxes” along the coast of Colonial North America from 1768 to 1772.

Through a variety of hands-on experiences, teachers learn about the political climate which existed between England and the colonists in the years preceding the American Revolution, study the critical role that the Chesapeake Bay's waterways played in the 18th century economy of Colonial America, and use primary documents and historic artifacts to study the everyday lives of the sailors who enforced the Townshend Duties.

Activities on board include raising and lowering sails, steering and navigating the course using 18th century instruments, sampling traditional food items and sailors' clothing, examining 18th century nautical charts of the Chesapeake Bay, studying 18th century surgical tools, and singing sea shanties.

COLONIAL LIFESTYLES KIT SATURDAY SEMINAR 10/14/06

Learn how to use the artifacts, primary sources, books, pictures, instructional plans and more in a handy kit focused on everyday life in colonial times. Participants get one kit per school represented to donate to their media center.

CHESAPEAKE 1608 SATURDAY SEMINAR TBD

This workshop features the world of the early 17th century Chesapeake including Native American history, the Age of Exploration, the settlement of Jamestown and Captain John Smith's 1608 Chesapeake voyages. Participants will receive materials, resources, and instructional strategies developed by Sultana Projects, Chestertown, as a result of its working relationships with the National Geographic Society, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, NOAA and Jamestown 400.

CHESAPEAKE 1608: CLASSROOM OUTREACH TBD

Sultana Projects will provide classroom-based follow-up training for teachers who have participated in the Chesapeake1608 Saturday Seminar (see above). These 40-minute programs will emphasize hands- on, artifact-based methodology that shows teachers how to engage students in active history learning. Presenters will demonstrate instructional strategies that encourage students to explore the day-to-day life and culture of both the Native and European populations of the early Chesapeake.

TWO-DAY REGIONAL TEACHER CONFERENCE 11/1-11/06 Washington DC

ECHOES OF 1608: JOHN SMITH AND THE WORLD OF EARLY 17th CENTURY CHESAPEAKE

This conference will give American history teachers background information and specific teaching strategies that will help them interpret this key episode in American history in their classrooms. Particular focus is on the Native American world in 1608 and today as well as the 1608 Chesapeake voyages of Captain John Smith.

Day #I will take place in the Gilbert Grosvenor Auditorium at National Geographic Society Headquarters; day #2 the conference moves to the National Museum of the American Indian on the Smithsonian Mall.

Maryland's Eastern Shore American history teachers will be provided with overnight accommodations at the University Club, located directly across the street from the National Geographic Society Headquarters. 52 rooms have been reserved for this purpose. Eastern Shore American history teachers will participate free of charge as their transportation, housing, and meals will be covered by Washington's Legacy Teaching American History Grant funds.

American history teachers beyond the Eastern Shore counties will be required to pay a small registration fee and provide their own lodging, meals and transportation.

It is anticipated that attendance will earn Maryland teachers 1 MSDE CPD Credit.

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