Grade Level: K-4

Fill-in-the-Blank Sailor Stories

Creative Writing: Sending the Message Home

Cooking Activity: Sailor Snack Time

Artwork depicting the battle between USS Constitution and HMS Java

Original letter from Commodore William Bainbridge to George Harrison regarding his medal, dated October 28, 1817, with transcription

Constitution & Guerriere, by George Ropes, Jr.

Compare: A Sailor’s Diet in Weights and Measures

Copper Bottomed Ship

Communication Aboard Constitution

What Floats Your Boat?

Compass Card

Cardinal Points Game (simple)

Wine Decanter

Popular War of 1812 Era Songs & Sources

Sailors Telling Time: Half Hour Glass

Eight Bells and All’s Well: Telling Time aboard Ship

Sailor Story: Surgeon Amos Evans

Mid-19th Century Medicine Chest and Pamphlet

Eat your Fruits and Vegetables!

What’s in THIS? Guess the Ingredient

Salty Talk: Sailor’s Sayings in Today’s English Language

The Real Thing: Ship’s Biscuit

Learn the Ropes!

All Hands Shorten Sail Ahoy!

Boatswain’s Pipe

Reefing Topsails, 1832

Block & Tackle from USS Constitution

Reading Symbols

Medal for the Victory at the Battle of Lake Erie

Paintings of USS Constitution