Here are several educational activities for your students. These are the activity sheets that accompany the educational programs offered by the museum. If you would like a museum staff member to conduct one of these programs for your class, please contact Eric Rivet at 431-1943 to schedule it.

Morse Code- These two sheets will provide your students with the Morse Code alphabet and an opportunity to learn their names in code. Morse Code was one of the most important methods of communication used by the Navy during World War II.

Morse_Code.doc
Morse_activity.doc

Semaphore- The Semaphore sheet teaches your students one of the fastest methods of communication used by the Navy. Have your students make their own semaphore flags, or just use their arms to send coded messages to one another!

Semaphore.doc

Signal Flags- This activity will allow your students to receive and understand messages sent by signal flag. You can find the signal flag alphabet here or have your students create their own signal flag alphabet.

Signal_Flags.doc

Crew Organization- Put your students' graphing skills to the test while teaching them how the SLATER's crewmen were organized. This sheet shows you the crew departments on a warship and what jobs men had within those departments. Have your students chart the size of each department on a graph, then discuss why some departments are so large and some are so small.

Crew_Organization.doc


Be sure to check this site for more activities in the future!