Mapping Coordinates
Ships and Boats
The Whale Hunt
All About Whales
Topic Sentences
100
The zero line of latitude.
What is the Equator?
100
The front and back of a ship, respectively.
What is the bow and the stern?
100
The person who harpoons the whale.
What is the boatsteerer?
100
The largest of the "toothed" whales.
What is a sperm whale?
100
A topic sentence for a paragraph about our trip to Mystic.
What is "Our trip to Mystic was full of learning, playing, great food, and crummy bathrooms!"
200
The zero line of longitude.
What is the Prime Meridian?
200
Where the food is prepared on a ship.
What is the galley?
200
Where the whale is cooked down for oil.
What is the tryworks?
200
The layer of fat on a whale that is cooked down for oil.
What is blubber?
200
A great topic sentence for a paragraph about being a whaling ship captain.
What is "The captain of a whaling ship has a lot of responsibility, but he also makes a lot of money if the trip is successful!"
300
The continent where 40 degrees North, 100 degrees East is located.
What is Asia?
300
The body of the ship.
What is the hull.
300
Where the officers stand to cut up the whale.
What is the cutting stage?
300
The small pieces of the whale that are put into the try works to cook.
What are bible leaves?
300
A great topic sentence for a paragraph about trying whales.
What is "Trying the whales is a dirty, smelly, hot, smoky job, but the whale oil you get is worth it."
400
The smaller units between degrees of latitude and longitude.
What are minutes?
400
The right and left sides of a ship.
What is starboard and port, respectively?
400
Where a crew member stands to look for whales.
What is the hoops or crow's nest?
400
The extremely valuable waxy substance found in a sperm whale's intestine.
What is ambergris?
400
A great topic sentence for a paragraph about whale hunters and western explorers.
What is "Whale hunters and western explorers have a lot in common, because the people in both groups were adventurous risk-takers."
500
The body of water where you find 40 degrees North and 20 degrees East.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
500
The cabin where the crew sleeps.
What is the "fo'castle"?
500
The oceans where we hunt bowhead whales.
What are the Arctic and Southern (cold) Oceans?
500
Four species of baleen whales.
What are humpback, bow head, right, and gray? (Could also include blue, minke, fin, sei)
500
A great topic sentence for a paragraph about whale hunters and immigrants to the New World.
What is "Whale hunters and immigrants to America both faced many unknowns with courage and confidence."
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