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- Have students make an Asia with PRIDE folder. Students should keep their materials, worksheets, and journal entries together in a special folder. They may want to decorate it with a picture or drawing of Pride of Baltimore II.
- Set up a Navigation Station in the room. You may want to set aside a special place or corner for the Asia with PRIDE project. You can call it the Navigation (or Nav) Station after the web site and the ship. This may be where the computer terminal is located in your classroom. You can make this an Asia with PRIDE independent learning center and have the appropriate worksheets and materials for each lesson collected there.
You might decorate the walls of the Nav Station with flags from the countries Pride II will visit. (Your students can find pictures of these flags on the Internet.) You can also print out and hang in the Nav Station pictures and biographies of crew members or plans of the ship. Students can also place art work and completed assignments in the Nav Station.
The focal point of the Nav Station should be the large color map found in the centerfold of the Baltimore Sun Education Supplement entitled "Exploring the World" published in November, 1997. You may want to laminate the map before hanging it, so it holds up for the whole voyage. (Email the Pride, Inc. Education office if you need a copy of this map: send e-mail to: schools@pride2.org) As students follow the voyage on the web, they can track the progress of the ship by marking its longitude and latitude on the map.
- Label parts of your classroom and school with nautical terms. A good way to help students learn the special nautical words that they will come across in the curriculum is to put labels on different parts of your room and use these terms frequently. For instance, the right side of the room can be labeled "starboard," the left side "port"; the front of the room becomes the "bow," the rear the "stern"; the computer terminal can be the "Navigation Station." If the whole school is taking part, labels can be placed over different rooms. For instance, the bathrooms become "heads", the cafeteria the "galley," the lobby the "foredeck," and the principal's office "Captain's quarters." Challenge your students to come up with labels of their own.
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