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Below you will find
some fabulous
lighthouse units posted by other educators to the web.
Apostle Islands Lighthouse Curriculum
This comprehensive curriculum guide encourages the use of lighthouses as a focal point of school curricula throughout the region and around the country. Many of the topics and activities included in the curriculum may be used by groups studying any of the lighthouses in the National Park System (pdf format).
Hillsboro Inlet
Lighthouse
by Cynthia S. Branigan
This interdisciplinary middle school Language Arts, Social Studies, Mathematics, and Science unit focuses on the Hillsboro Inlet Lighthouse.
Keeping
the Lights for Kids
by Elinor De Wire In this reprint of an article that originally appeared in Cultural Resources Management, Vol.20, No.8, 1997, lighthouse aficionado and author Elinor De Wire describes her work in teaching school children about lighthouses.
Learning
from Lighthouses: A
Webquest for Intermediate Grades by
Janice
Behrends WilliamsThis comprehensive intermediate interdisciplinary unit might be used as a model by other
teachers.
A Light in the Storm: Patterns of
a Lighthouse A Kennedy Center Artsedge teaching unit for grades 3-6 focusing on Design Arts, Language Arts, Math, Performing Arts, Social Studies, and Visual Arts as related to the novel A Light in the Storm by Karen Hesse.
Lighthouses
by Joanne Hughes This lighthouse lesson focuses on teaching an essential Information Skill to grades 3-5, the difference between Fiction and Nonfiction.
The Science and Mathematics of
LighthousesAn educational resource covering
aspects of geometry, trigonometry, algebra, physics, and chemistry.
Teacher's
Lighthouse Resource for Grades K-4 A comprehensive teaching guide prepared by the National Coast Guard Service for use in classrooms, includes lighthouse history, facts, and operation, Art, Language Arts, and Science Activities, a Teacher Bibliography, a Student Bibliography, and a Glossary. May be printed.