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Pirate Camp

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It's a Pirate's Life For Me!

From landlubber to swashbuckler, it’s the pirate’s life for me! Cast-off into the seven seas as learners work together to navigate its treacherous depths, engaging in STEM-focused experiments, hands-on design trials and engaging group discussions. Set the scene each day with exciting stories that engage their senses, curiosity and critical thinking skills. Then, it’s up to the merry bunch of misfits to collaborate with the rest of their crew to accomplish challenging tasks like forging catapults, pirate science and fashioning maps to hidden treasure. In Pirate Camp, action, adventure and discovery await you at every turn

Grades: 1-3
Students: Up to 30
Contact Hours: 12+

Subject Targets:

Engineering Design, English Language Arts Connections, Art/STEAM

Reusability and Expansion:

Refill Kit Available. This product offers affordable consumable refill kits. See the materials tab for details.

Settings & Tech Requirements

Recommended Settings:

Summer Camps
Classrooms
Out-of-School Time Programs
Home Learning

Tech Requirements:

None

Curriculum Topics

Each Activity Includes:

Schedule
Opening & Closing Discussion
Step-By-Step Activity Instructions
Topic Background & Vocabulary
Materials List

Curriculum Topics:

Becoming a Pirate
Learning the Ropes
Pirate Shipbuilders
Sink or Float: Pirate Science
Floating Treasure Quest
Eye Eye, Captain
Land Ho!
Pirate Catapult Challenge: Engineering the Perfect Shot
Under Siege on the High Seas
Pirates, Parrots and Sea Shanties
Never Eat Soggy Waffles
Hook Island Treasure Quest

Professional Development

Product Orientation:

Half-hour free webinar orientation for purchases of $500+
One-hour free webinar orientation for purchases of $1000+
Additional training available for purchase

Materials

Complete Program Includes:

Pirate Camp comes with all the supplies needed for 30 students to complete 12 one-hour activities:

Instructor Guide: 1
Printed Student Pages: 1 set
Long Builds: 1 set
Posters: 1 set
BrickLAB Brick Packs: 4
Brick Separators: 2
Mesh Bag (for cleaning bricks): 1
Storage Bins: 2
Small Storage Containers: 5
Clear, Round Containers (50 pack): 2
Construction Paper (50 pack): 2
Crayons (24 pack): 15
Elastic Cords (100 pack): 1
Glue Stick: 30
Golf Pencils (50 pack): 1
Hole Punch: 1
Index cards (100 pack): 1
Marbles (20 pack): 1
Metal Washers: 80
Paper Cups: 50
Ping Pong Balls: 15
Rubberbands (250 pack): 1
Scissors - Adult: 1
Scissors - Children's: 30
Tape: 5
Washable Markers (8 pack): 5
Access to the Digital Resource Portal

Curriculum Print & Digital Includes:

Instructor Guide: 1
Printed Student Pages: 1 set
Long Builds: 1 set
Posters: 1 set
Access to the Digital Resource Portal

Add-On to Full BrickLAB:

The Add-On includes everything from the Complete Program except for the Bricks, Brick Separator and Mesh Bag. Perfect for expanding your existing BrickLAB program with new curriculum.

Refill Kit Available:

Looking to use your Pirate Camp for the next round of scalawags? This refill kit will get you back up and sailing!

Printed Student Pages: 1 set
Long Builds: 1 set
Construction Paper (50 pack): 2
Crayons (24 pack): 15
Elastic Cords (100 pack): 1
Glue Stick: 30
Golf Pencils (50 pack): 1
Index cards (100 pack): 1
Paper Cups: 50
Rubberbands (250 pack):1
Tape: 5
Washable Markers (8 pack): 5

Standards & Alignment

Habits of Mind:

16 thinking habits developed by Art Costa and Bena Kallick to empower students to succeed in a 21st-century learning environment.

Applying Past Knowledge to New Situations
Creating, Imagining, Innovating
Finding Humor
Gathering Data Through All Senses
Listening and Understanding with Empathy
Managing Impulsivity
Metacognition
Persisting
Questioning and Posing Problems
Responding with Wonderment and Awe
Striving For Accuracy
Taking Responsible Risks
Thinking and Communicating with Clarity Precision
Thinking Flexibly
Thinking Interdependently

21st Century Skills:

A set of widely-applicable abilities essential for success in the information age.

Communication and Collaboration
Creativity and Innovation
Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
Flexibility and Adaptability
Information, Media, and Technology Literacy
Initiative and Self-Direction
Leadership and Responsibility
Productivity and Accountability
Social and Cross-Cultural Skills

Next Generation Science Standards:*

NGSS Practice 1. Asking Questions and Defining Problems
NGSS Crosscutting Concept 6: Structure and Function
NGSS K-2-ETS1-1: Asking Questions & Defining Engineering Problems
NGSS 3-5-ETS1-1: Defining & Delimiting Engineering Problems
NGSS K-2-ETS1-2: Using Models & Developing Possible Solutions
NGSS 2-PS1-2: Analyzing Properties of Matter
NGSS 2-PS1-3: Matter and Its Interactions
NGSS 2-PS1-3: Observing Properties of Matter
NGSS K-2-ETS1-3: Analyzing Data & Optimizing Design Solutions
NGSS 3-PS2-1: Forces and Motion
NGSS 2-ESS2-2: Mapping Earth’s Systems
NGSS 3-PS2-3: Types of Interactions

*Next Generation Science Standards and NGSS is a registered trademark of WestEd. Neither WestEd nor the lead states and partners that developed the Next Generation Science Standards were involved in the production of this product, and do not endorse it.

Common Core State Standards (CCSS):

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY-RL.1.1: Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.1.4: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 1 reading and content, choosing flexibly from an array of strategies.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.1.6: Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts, including using frequently occurring conjunctions to signal simple relationships (e.g., because).
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.1.1: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 1 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.1.1.A: Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., listening to others with care, speaking one at a time about the topics and texts under discussion).
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.1.2: Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.1.4: Describe people, places, things, and events with relevant details, expressing ideas and feelings clearly.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.1.6: Produce complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.1.7: Participate in shared research and writing projects (e.g., explore a number of "how-to" books on a given topic and use them to write a sequence of instructions).
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY-W.1.8: With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY-RL.2.1: Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.2.1: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 2 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.2.2: Recount or describe key ideas or details from a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.2.4: Tell a story or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking audibly in coherent sentences.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.2.6: Produce complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.2.6: Use words and phrases acquired through
conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts, including using adjectives and adverbs to describe (e.g., When other kids are happy that makes me happy).
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.2.OA.A.1: Use addition and subtraction within 100 to solve one- and two-step word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions, e.g., by using drawings and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.2.OA.B.2: Fluently add and subtract within 20 using mental strategies. By end of Grade 2, know from memory all sums of two one-digit numbers.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY-RL.3.1: Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.3.1: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 3 topics and texts, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.3.2: Determine the main ideas and supporting details of a text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.3.4: Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking clearly at an understandable pace.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.3.6: Speak in complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.6: Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate conversational, general academic, and domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal spatial and temporal relationships (e.g., After dinner that night we went looking for them).
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY-L.3.4: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 3 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.7: Conduct short research projects that build knowledge about a topic.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY-W.3.8: Recall information from experiences or gather information from print and digital sources; take brief notes on sources and sort evidence into provided categories.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.MD.C.5: Recognize area as an attribute of plane figures and understand concepts of area measurement.

International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Standards for Students:

1.1: Empowered Learner
1.1.a: Learning Goals
1.1.b: Customize Learning Environments
1.1.c: Feedback to Improve Practice
1.3: Knowledge Constructor
1.3.d: Explore Real-World Issues
1.4: Innovative Designer
1.4.a: Design Process
1.4.c: Prototypes
1.4.d: Open-Ended Problems
1.5: Computational Thinker
1.5.a: Problem Definitions
1.5.c: Decompose Problems
1.6: Creative Communicator
1.6.b: Original and Remixed Works
1.6.d: Customize the Message
1.7: Global Collaborator
1.7.b: Multiple Viewpoints
1.7.c: Project Teams

National Core Arts Standards (NCAS):

VA:Cr1.1.1a: Engage collaboratively in exploration and imaginative play with materials.
VA:Cr1.2.1a: Use observation and investigation in preparation for making a work of art.
VA:Cr2.1.1a: Experiment with materials and tools to explore personal interests in making art.
VA:Cr2.2.1a: Demonstrate safe and proper procedures for using materials, tools, and equipment while making art.
VA:Pr5.1.1a: Create and present artwork that demonstrates a beginning understanding of the visual arts.
VA:Re7.1.1a: Identify and describe the elements of art used in their artwork and the artwork of others.
VA:Re.7.2.1a: Compare images that represent the same subject.
VA:Cr1.1.2a: Brainstorm collaboratively multiple approaches to an art or design problem.
VA:Cr2.1.2a: Experiment with various materials and tools to explore personal interests in a work of art or design.
VA:Cn10.1.2a: Create works of art about events in home, school, or community life.
VA:Cr1.1.3a: Elaborate on an imaginative idea.
VA:Cr1.1.3a: Brainstorm multiple approaches to a creative art or design problem.
VA:Cr1.2.3a: Apply knowledge of available resources, tools, and technologies to investigate personal ideas through the art-making process.
VA:Cr2.3.3a: Individually or collaboratively construct representations, diagrams, or maps of places that are part of everyday life.
VA:Cn10.1.3a: Develop a work of art based on observations of surroundings.

About the Author

Beth Schadd

Hailing from Wisconsin, Beth Schadd moved to Idaho in 2008 in search of adventure and a Master’s degree in Environmental Science and Education from the University of Idaho. As an educator, she has worked with children of all ages in the outdoors and the classroom, as well as coaching various sports.

Beth has developed experiential curriculum for science centers, museums, day camps, and outdoor programs. In 2013, she traveled to China to lead outdoor and adventure camps. Prior to moving to Idaho, Beth worked in labs studying mosquitoes and environmental health, and managed clinical trials. Though she will always be a Cheese Head at heart, she has embraced the great outdoors of the West, enjoying snowshoeing, mountain biking and backpacking, and has become an avid stand up
paddleboarder.

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