After 33 years of maritime education, Jamestown Settlement has embarked on a multiyear restoration of the Susan Constant. While the ship is away, students can still experience what it's like to be onboard the wooden, 120-ton cargo vessel. Using the 360º virtual tour, they can navigate their way through the upper and 'tween decks and catch a glimpse of costumed interpreters doing ship-board tasks.

Classroom teachers and homeschoolers can you use Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation educational resources to offer history and STEM education while exploring the Susan Constant and maritime history.

• Assist students in exploring the Susan Constant using the 360º tour and help them answer questions as they visit each of the ship's decks. This resource can be used with the student's virtual visit activity sheet.

• Use the "Anna's Adventure: Ship Shape" video to explore a 17th-century ship and discover how passengers and crew survived the high seas as they journeyed to Jamestown. A student activity sheet accompanies the video.

• Students can use the "If It Fits, It Ships" activity to decide what they would pack for the 144-day journey across the ocean to Jamestown and what they would need once they arrived.

• Sailors in the 17th-century had a unique vocabulary they used to sail a merchant ship many years ago. Use the "Talk Like a Sailor" activity to explore these maritime terms. 

Virginia Standards of Learning: Historical Thinking Skills

K-12.1 Students will demonstrate skills for historical thinking, geographical analysis, economic decision-making, and responsible citizenship by:

• interpreting charts, graphs and pictures to determine characteristics of people, places or events in Virginia history.
• recognizing points of view and historical perspectives.
• using a decision-making model to identify costs and benefits of a specific choice made.