Grade Level: K -3rd
Subject Areas: History and Language Arts
Time Requirement: 40-50 minutes

Wisconsin Model Academic Standards
B.4.3 Social Studies-History: Time, continuity, and change.
Examine biographies, stories, narratives, and folk tales to understand the lives of ordinary and extraordinary people, and explain their relationship to important historical events.

C.4.2 Language Arts: Listen to and comprehend oral communications.

BACKGROUND
Storytelling is an art that comes in many different forms and started long before there was a written language. Stories explain things that happen in nature, and they entertain. They are a way we pass on our culture and the history of our people. Young and old alike -- we are all storytellers!

FOCUS QUESTION
How do we learn about our past?

STUDENT OBJECTIVES
List a cargo schooners once carried on the Great Lakes.
Explain what a schooner is.
Make a storytelling ornament.

VOCABULARY WORDS
Schooner

MATERIALS
One ornament kit for each student.
One paper plate per student.

TEACHER PREPARATION
Schedule your IVC session.
Gather all materials.

PROCEDURE
Have materials ready for students, but do not hand out until instructed to do so during the live interactive program.
Connect with Underwater Educational Services.

ASSESSMENT
Name another story that also tells about your past.
What other ways are stories told?