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Shipboard Education & Environmental Outreach Programs

Living Classrooms Foundation has provided unique hands-on, interdisciplinary and environmental education programs aboard historic ships and on land since 1985. These dynamic, "learning by doing" programs emphasize applied learning in math, science, social studies, language arts, and social skills.

The programs serve students from a variety of backgrounds and economic means and range in length from one-day expeditions for school and youth groups to extended shipboard and land/sea programs. Participants see how academic skills are used in the real world. Leadership and teamwork are key objectives as students work together to raise and lower sails, trawl for marine life, perform scientific tests, and explore the commerce, history, natural resources, and ecosystems of the Chesapeake Bay.

Living Classrooms shipboard education programs serve thousands of students per year from throughout the region aboard the Foundation's floating classrooms including schooner Lady Maryland, Chesapeake Buyboats Mildred Belle and Half Shell, and Skipjacks Sigsbee and Minnie V.

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If you are interested in booking a school or group trip, contact Elizabeth Koustmer at 410-685-0295 or ekoustmer@livingclassrooms.org.

Visit Sail Classics for your own model of the Skipjack Minnie V.

 






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