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*Poem
Pirate Story
By Robert Louis Stevenson
Print the poem. After reading the poem have the children
draw an illustration for the poem. A new window will open.
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Pegleg Tango
By Captain Bogg & Salty
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Captain Bogg & Salty Website |
Weigh anchor with the singing pirates of Captain Bogg & Salty as
they perform scurvy sing-alongs, buccaneer rock, and mermaid lullabies.
A fun CD of Pirate Pop and Buccaneer Rock for Scallywaggs of all
ages. The lyrics are very piratey and include useful information as
how to prevent scurvy, and clever lyrics about parrots demanding
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*Design
A Jolly Roger
Pirates sailed under flags called "Jolly Rogers". Many
pirates created their own designs.
Blackbeard's Flag
Jolly Roger Kit
Need: 1 piece of drawing paper, 1 sheet of red, white, or black
construction paper, 3 pieces of felt ( red, white, black), a stick.
Design a pirate flag that tells something about you. Pick something
you are interested in or good at to include on your pirate flag. For
example: if you like the guitar include guitars on your pirate flag
instead of crossbows. Also include on your flag pirate symbols:
skulls, skeletons, crossbones, cutlasses, hourglasses.
First draw your design on the drawing paper. Then cut your design out
of felt and glue onto construction paper. After your pirates flag is
dry tape it to a stick.
*The Compass
Create A Compass Rose
Have children make their own compass roses, being sure to put the N,
E, S, and W in the correct places.
Make A Compass
Need: 1 clear plastic cup, pencil, bar magnet, thread, needle or
small nail, cork, water.
Note: Review with the children compass directions.
Stroke one end of the magnet along the needle, about 30 times in the
same direction. Test to see if the needle (or nail) has become
magnetized by picking up pin.
Cup Compass: Tie one end of a piece of thread to the center of your
magnetized needle. Tie the other end of the thread to a pence. Place
the pencil on the rim of the cup with the needle hanging down into
the cup.
Place the completed compass on a table. Once the needle comes to rest
the thickest end of the needle will point north. Move the cup compass
to other areas on the table and watch the needle come to rest and
point north.
Cork & Cup Compass: After magnetizing the needle (or nail) press
the needle through a length of cork until the cork is centered on the
needle. Fill the plastic up with water. Place the cork with needle in
the cup of water. As the needle floats and the comes to rest the
thickest end of the needle will point north.
Compass Guide Poem
How do we know
Which way to go?
Look at the magnet
and it will show.
North, south, east or west,
For finding directions it is the best.
How does it work?
It’s as simple as can be.
The planet’s biggest magnet is itself, you see.
The biggest, and strongest magnet of all.
Compared to it, all others are quite small.
Because of its size, it’s pull is so strong
that all other magnets are pulled along.
Try as they might, for all that they’re worth,
Magnets can’t help but point toward north.
So the next time you’re lost
without a clue,
Let a magnet find your way
to rescue you.
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By Brett Helquist
Age 4 to 8
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Jolly Roger was a lousy pirate. Whenever there was any real pirating
to be done, the other pirates scowled and sent him away.
Jolly Roger often wished he could think of something that would make
the other pirates like him. Then one day, in the middle of a great
battle, Jolly Roger had a wonderful idea...and pirate ships would
never be the same again! In recognition of his feat, his shipmates
stitch up a flag that has gone down in history as the "Jolly Roger."
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*Sites To See
Origins
of the Compass Rose
Learn the history of how the compass rose was developed to help with
navigation, and learn about its 32 points.
Images
of compass roses from Portuguese Nautical Charts
Every nautical chart maker had his own characteristic compass rose
using different color oppositions. View a few early sixteenth-century examples.
Charting
A Course With A Compass
Chart a course with a compass rose. Learn about the Portuguese
map-maker Pedro Reinell who first drew the now standard 32 point
compass rose on a chart (compass drawn on a chart is called a compass rose).
Azimuths
and compass quadrant bearings (thinking in circles)
Follow along as a compass rose is created.
How
to use a compass
A lesson on how to use a compass.
*Make
A Treasure Chest
Need: you need a shoe box,colored paper(black, brown, yellow), glue, sissors
Have the shoe box, glue, and paper ready.
Paste brown paper on the box. Cut tiny strips (1/2 inch) of the
yellow paper and glue them on the edges or as strips on the box. Cut black about an inch and glue as strips on your box.
You can also glue brown or black construction paper on the inside of the box. Make a keyhole than you are done. Contributed by: Liz Houston
Print decorations for your treasure chest: skull and crossbones, keyhole, and keep out sign.
*Make
A Treasure Map
Need: white construction paper, crayons, used damp tea bag
Have the children draw an island on their construction paper. Write
the name of the water that surrounds their island (ocean, bay, cove,
lake) on the map. Draw a compass rose in the lower right hand corner
of the treasure map.
Things to include on the island: symbols for hills, mountains, pond,
lakes, forest, palm trees, shark fins in the water, big X to mark where the treasure is.
When the treasure maps are finished age the maps by pressing a damp
tea bag all over it. Tear the jagged edges all round the treasure map to
*Pirate
Dress Up Day
At the end of the theme have a "Pirate Dress Up Day".
Adults and children come dressed in pirate costumes.
Cardboard pirate hat (pdf)
A realistic pirate hat that is easy for children to make and feel happy with.
*Game
Pin the eye patch on the pirate
Materials Needed: Large Sheet of White Card
Large Sheet of Black Card, Paints or felt pens, Chalk, OHT's and OHP, Blue tack, Blindfold
Directions: Find a good pirate face on the internet and print on the computer. Simple Pirate Face to print. Next trace the face onto a OHT. Project the face onto the wall and blue tack your white card so that the face fits onto it. Trace the face on the card.
Color or paint the pirate face to make it look appealing
Cut eye patches from balck card big enough to cover one
eye.
THE GAME BEGINS:
Line children up and they take it in turn to be
blindfolded and spun around. They are then given an eye
patch with their name written on it in chalk and with a
piece of blue tack on the back.
They then stick the eye patch onto the pirate. The closest
to the correct spot wins a small prize. Contributed by Alisha.
*Treasure
Hunt
On pirate dress up day have a treasure hunt!
Decorate a box to look like a treasure chest.
Fill the treasure chest with a variety of goodies for the children.
Hide the treasure chest.
Before the treasure hunt make up cards with clues
on them. Divide the children into groups and give each group 1 clue
card. Each card should take them to a spot with another clue card
until the finale clue card and they find the treasure chest.
You can make the clues on the cards as pictures
for children who can not read yet.
*Sites to See
National Geographic-Blackbeard Terror At Sea
Play hangman challenge. Learn about pirate myths...and realities.
Patch the Pirate
Listen to the radio broadcast of this Christian pirate using
RealPlayer. Coloring pages are available and are updated each month.
Welcome
to Pirates
An educational web site devoted to the subject of piracy
Shanties
and Sea Songs
*Coins
Design your own pirate coins.
Coin Sites To See
1788 Spanish Gold Escudo Treasure Doubloon
*Vocabulary
Pirates, Ahoy Spyglass
Need: brown construction paper; yellow construction paper...
Making spyglasses--Glue strip of yellow paper on bottom of horizontal brown paper...roll and staple into a tube. Have students look thru spyglass; therapist/teacher holds up picture symbols of pirate words and asks the pirate
'what do you spy?' encourage student to respond with the
carrier phrase "I spy ______". Contributed by: KJ
The Pirate Cards
ESL Flashcards that teach numbers, adjectives and 'with'.
The New England Pirate Museum
Vocabulary Hunt
Pirate Vocabulary
Print "Pirate Vocabulary" and create a Pirates Dictionary.
Pirate Word Search 1
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