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Educational Programs

The American Rover offers one and a half hour educational cruises departing from Norfolk’s Waterside. Hands-on activities enable students to become active participants in the learning adventure. 

The Program is aligned with Virginia Standards of Learning.
Hands-on activities enable students to become active participants in the learning adventure.

• On board students will:

  • Set the sails

  • Steer the ship

  • Learn how the Captain navigates

  • Hear stories of Mariner History and Life

  • Learn about early Virginian and Colonial Life

  • Tie Sailor Knots

  • Interact in Group Activities

  • Learn the History of Ships and Sailing

  • Take part in a demonstration of why ships float

  • Investigate the effects of wind, weather, moon and stars on sailing.
    
    $9.00 per student
    One comp per each 25 students
    60 passengers minimum/120 passenger maximum
    Available April - November

• 3.1 & 4.1 Effective communication skills
• 3, 4, 5, 6, & 7.2 Develop verbal and Non-verbal skills
• 3.5 Comprehension of Printed Materials
• 3.10 Available Technology
• 4.3, 6.3, & 5.4 Read and learn unfamiliar words
• 5, 6, 7, & 8.1 Education though group activities
• 5.8.& 7.6 Synthesize information

 History

• 3.1 Describe "civilization", Greece, and Rome
• 3.2 The discovery of America
• 3, 4, 5, & 6.3 Settlement of Jamestown & Virginia Colonies
• 3.5 Historical cause & effect of colonies
• 3.6 Use of maps, tables, graphs, and charts
• 3.7 Economic specialization of past communities
• 3.10 Changes in Transportation
• 4.4 Early Virginian Social & political life
• 4.5 Virginian life reconstruction to 20^th century
• 4.7 & 5.9 Development Historical analysis skills
• 5.1 American life before 17^th century
• 5.2 Routes of American explorers
• 5.6 & 5.7 Key Events: Civil war to Reconstruction
• 6.2 Industrial Revolution
• 6.3 World Affairs & the U.S. between 1898-1930
• 8.2, 8.3, & 8.4 Ancient river civilizations

 Science

• 3.1, 3.2, & 3.3 Investigations & simple machines
• 3.8, 3.9, & 3.10 Basic earth & water cycles, human survival
• 3.11, 4.1 4.2, & 6.3 Energy, investigations, machine work
• 4.6, 4.7, & 4.8 Weather, Astrology, Natural resources
• 5.1, 5.2, & 5.4 Mass, length, volume, communication
• 5.6, 5.7, & 6.1 Earth changing; investigations; ocean environment
• 6.2, 6.7, & 6.10 Logic; matter; solar system
• PS.1 – PS.11 Investigations of mass, volume, density, density, temp., force; energy conservation, transfer, & application
• ES.1, ES.2, ES.11, & ES.13 Volume area, earth systems, & oceans
• PH.1 Investigate a system of components
• PH.4 – PH.6 Applications of physics
• PH.8 & PH.12 Energy, Field Concepts
• PH.14 Newton physics

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