In the years between the adventures of Marco Polo and the sailing of Christopher Columbus there were some important changes in ship design. On Thursday we looked at how a change in rigging made it possible for ships to sail in other directions than before the wind and created a mobile of ship types from the Age of Discovery.
I had the children hold a piece of paper while blowing on it. They experimented with holding it at different angles while keeping the “wind” coming from the same direction
I had them color and cut out six different ship types.
Bull wanted to color a ship too, so I adapted his Bible story lesson of Jesus Calming the Storm.
Once the ships were colored and cut out, I laminated them and we strung them up.
I also cut and laminated Bull’s picture adding storm clouds and waves cut from construction paper.
We left them hanging in the living room for S to admire, then moved them into the playroom and the boys’ room for more permanent display.