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pirates and piracy - bo of ideas and sheets

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I use GPSr and plotted some GPS points around the school and then sent kids .hi off treasure hunting - I used my own GPSr and a borrowed one from our DP - my kids are 8&9 years old.

Visual Art
Sketch yourself as a pirate. What would you be doing if you were a pirate? What would you wear? What would you look like? Would you have a parrot? A Ship? A band of merry men?

Take a digital photo of your artwork and then upload it to your class blog or this wiki!

Make Yourself A Pirate
Take a digital photo of yourself using the laptop or digital camera. Place your photo into a programme like Kid Pix. Add features to make yourself a pirate - hat, compass, parrot... what else can you think of? Save your image. You could print it, upload it to your blog, this wiki or use it to make a [|blabberize](see further down the page)!

Pirate Rules
Even Pirates had rules... The Pirate Code Of Conduct was very important. Read some examples [|here]. Imagine you have your own Pirate ship and crew - What would be your Code Of Conduct for your pirates? Create a poster or [|glogster] showing your Code Of Conduct.

=Mathematics=

Treasure Map
Take an area of your school and create a map of the area - you might like to use grid paper to draft your map.

Use wet tea bags to stain the paper and leave it in the sun to dry. Get a black and red marker or vivid to mark in your map. Decide where you would place your treasure and mark it with an X.

Google Sketch Up.
Design and create pirate ships using [|Google Sketch Up]. Fantastic for exploring 2D & 3D shapes, rotation, reflection, translation, positional language & spatial visualisation.

Pirate Clothing - Flickr
Search for an image of a great pirate. Upload the image to[|flickr] - don't forget to use a link back to the site or search for Creative Commons images. Use the note tool to leave notes over your image of all the things piratey!

Skype Call / Video iChat
Set up a Skype of Video call with a classroom who is listed in the Band O' Pirates. Practice your pirate speak or show/share some of your work!

Pirate Flag - The Jolly Roger
Here are some examples of [|pirate flags (Jolly Rogers).] Design the pirate flag that would fly from your pirate ship. What symbols would you use to show what makes you the best pirate?

Blabberize
Head over to [|Blabberize] and create your own pirate avatar. Use an image from the internet (don't forget to credit it!) or your own pirate artwork and make it speak pirate!

Pirate Visual Dictionary
Create a class pirate visual dictionary - brainstorm pirate words as a class. Take an A4 page - write your word and the definition for it. Illustrate your word. Collate them altogether for your very own Pirate Visual Dictionary.

Don't forget to add your wordshere!

Wanted Poster
Choose a pirate from the list below and create a wanted poster for them. Take a digital photo of your artwork and then upload it to your class blog or this wiki!
 * ==Pirate== || ==Crime== || ==Link== ||
 * Blackbeard ||  || [|National Geographic: Pirates - Black Beard] ||
 * Captain Kidd || Piracy, Looting, || [|Captain Kidd] ||

=Build a pirate ship for your classroom= We got some big boxes from Harvey Norman, chose the biggest, sketched out the ship in chalk and then painted it. I'm going to keep it in the classroom as a quiet reading spot.

planning the ship

initial painting done

cutting and highlighting done

3 pirates ...