The Journey with the Stars program at the Battleship Missouri Memorial is an interactive learning experience for fourth grade students and teachers.
How Do We Navigate?
The Journey with the Stars program includes pre-visit and post-visit materials and lesson plans for classroom teachers to use to help enrich the museum experience. Participation in this program includes an engaging and interactive museum visit with a star tracking experience, hands-on practice with current GPS technology, and observation and application of traditional celestial navigation tools, with an emphasis on Polynesian voyaging traditions.
Participation in this program provides students with a greater understanding of Hawaiian history, celestial navigation and stellar astronomy, and the use of current technology for aquatic navigation. During the lesson, students will dive into the subjects of science, math, language arts, and history.
Purpose
Participation in this program provides students with a greater understanding of Hawaiian History, celestial navigation and stellar astronomy, and the use of current technology for aquatic navigation.
Participation
Journey with the Stars is designed for students in grade 4, with up to 25 students per day.
Program Components
The Journey with the Stars program includes pre-visit and post-visit materials and lesson plans for classroom teachers to use to help enrich the museum experience.
The program onboard begins with an introduction to our context: the Polynesian Triangle, the Hawaiian Islands, Puʻuloa and the ahupuaʻa system, and the Battleship Missouri now. We divide into three different groups, which will rotate between stations with activities and lessons around Navigation, Astronomy, and History.
What makes the program unique?
Journey with the Stars discusses the navigational tools of the past and present within our unique context. We learn together onboard the historic Battleship Missouri while floating on the waters of Wai Momi within the Puʻuloa area. Participation in this program provides the students with a greater understanding of Hawaiian history, celestial navigation and astronomy, the use of the current technology for aquatic navigation.
