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TREASURE ISLAND ADVENTURES Globeducate Project Suitable for 4-5 Year Olds TREASURE ISLAND ADVENTURES Globeducate Project Suitable for 4-5 year olds Globeducate Projects 2020 PROJECT TITLE - OVERVIEW ABOUT THE PROJECT PROJECT TASK You’ve been captured by Pirate Pointy Beard and find yourself upon the Jolly Roger ship with only Over the 10 sessions you will learn all there is to pirates and a parrot for company. know about being a pirate. Through a variety of creative and design activities, you’ll learn how to To survive you will need to learn how to act like a outwit the pirates and find the treasure so you pirate, walk like a pirate, talk like a pirate … BE a can get back home safely! pirate! Do it or face the plank! Are you up for the challenge, me hearties?! RESOURCES NOTES Recyclable materials such as cereal boxes, egg Some activities may require adult supervision. cartons, yoghurt pots, sponges, corks, markers, There is a video introduction for each session. scissors, glue, paints, paper, paintbrush, oil, Clicko n the image to access them. empty water bottle or jar. Click on links to listen to Pirate songs. See also cookery recipes. ©2020 Globeducate – Private and Confidential Treasure Island – A Pirate Adventure ScenarioYou find yourself aboard the Jolly Roger, the ship of the notoriously bad Pirate Pointy Beard. He likes to make his prisoners walk the plank! The only way to save yourself and get back home is to learn how to act, sing and dance like a pirate. You’ll discover how to make a treasure map, sink a ship and survive the dreaded scurvy! Don’t forget to have fun! Pirates aren’t all bad! Are you feeling brave? Let’s go, me mateys! ©2020 Globeducate – Private and Confidential 3 Session 1 Today, for our first step to becoming pirates, we need to choose our pirate names and make a pirate eye patch! Watch the video to find out how! Let’s go, me hearties! Aarrh! CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO ACCESS VIDEO ©2019 Globeducate | Private and Confidential 4 Make your own Pirate Eye Patch No true pirate would dare be seen without an eye patch! Aarrh, be brave and give it a go!! Interesting Pirate Fact! Pirates believed that wearing an eye patch would improve their eyesight and help them see better when they were in the dark below decks. Click on the link to see Captain Feather Sword and his friends https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z_073Zvmyo ©2019 Globeducate | Private and Confidential 5 Pirate Eye Patch Template Now then shipmates, when you’ve made your eye patch, ask a grown up to hide some treasure for you to find in your bedroom. Make the room dark and pretend you’re a pirate ‘below decks’. Does the eye patch make it easier to see or harder? ©2019 Globeducate | Private and Confidential 6 Session 2 Ahoy there, mateys! Well done! You made it through Day 1! Now, no pirate should be seen without their jewelry, so it’s time to get busy, matey. The shinier the better! Have fun me hearties! Aarrh! CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO ACCESS VIDEO ©2019 Globeducate | Private and Confidential 7 Pirate Density All pirates need to know about what will sink and what can float. (You’ll want to know too if you have to walk the plank!) Today you will do a density experiment to understand how different things behave in oil and water. Interesting Pirate Fact! Pirates wore earrings because they believed that they improved their eyesight, too! Do you think that could be true? Click on the link to sing along with «Yoho Yoho, a Pirate You Shall Be!» https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe_HDfdmnaM ©2019 Globeducate | Private and Confidential 8 Session 3 Congratulations, shipmates! You made it to Day 3! Today we’re going to find out about pirate booty. First we’ll find out how to clean our loot, and then we’ll bury it in rocks…but be careful, matey. These aren’t normal rocks! CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO ACCESS VIDEO ©2019 Globeducate | Private and Confidential 9 If I Was A Pirate… Interesting Pirate Fact! All ships had a Pirate Code. The code was a set of rules that each member of the crew must abide by, and no fighting was one of the most important rules. What would your Pirate Code be? Can you draw a picture of yourself as a pirate? Add some words to describe what you look like and your favourite pirate things to do. Click on the link to sing along with «Over the Open Sea!» https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVfVIcW1alo ©2019 Globeducate | Private and Confidential 10 Session 4 Well now shipmate, you made it to Day 4! To really fit in with the rest of the pirate crew, you need your own hat! There’s no way Pointy Beard will mistake you for a landlubber then! Avast Ye! (Pay attention!) CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO ACCESS VIDEO ©2019 Globeducate | Private and Confidential 11 Sink or Float? Pirate ships need to be able to withstand the Seven Seas. The material that they are made from will decide if they sink or survive! Try our science experiment to find out the best materials for making a ship. Interesting Pirate Fact! During the time of pirates, women were not usually allowed aboard the ship. That didn’t stop some women becoming pirates though! Click on the link to join in with «We are the Pirates!» https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jx79dLuqPwQ For more interesting pirate facts, click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdJ-1Y7RRn8 ©2019 Globeducate | Private and Confidential 12 Session 5 The thing that all pirates love best is treasure! And where do they keep their treasure? Why in a treasure chest, of course! Sometimes pirates even bury their treasure to make sure their sneaky pirate pals do not find it! Today you’ll make your very own treasure chest. Follow the link to find out how: https://www.redtedart.com/egg-carton-crafts-treasure-box-craft/ CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO ACCESS©2019 VIDEO Globeducate | Private and Confidential 13 Pirate Flag Hey there, shipmates! Today it’s time to really identify as a pirate! You will need to think about how you want other pirates to see you with your very own pirate flag… and matey, I sure hope it’s scary… Aarrh! Interesting Pirate Fact! Pirates designed their own flags with personal symbols that were unique to each pirate. They are commonly known as ‘jolly rogers’. Click on the link below if you want to be a pirate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDKlKiMIYv4 ©2019 Globeducate | Private and Confidential 14 Session 6 Ahoy there, shipmates! We’ve got this far, and there’s no giving up now! To make sure you stay strong and healthy on board your ship, we’ll be making some scurvy medicine. CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO ACCESS VIDEO Interesting Pirate Fact! Pirates had to add spices and rum to their water to make it drinkable. After so long on board, it got really rather smelly. 15 X marks the spot! Yo ho ho! Hide your treasure somewhere safe and then make a map, don’t forget that X marks the spot! See if someone in your family can follow your Follow this link to see 3 cheeky children follow a pirate map and find the map and find the treasure! treasure! What would you buy with your share? Good luck shipmate! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CscXeGFvHog Click on the link to hear how to talk like a priate with Jake and the Neverland Pirates https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffAsk_0Go3U ©2019 Globeducate | Private and Confidential 16 Session 7 Ahoy matey! It’s time to learn some real pirate tricks so today we are going to discover how to waterproof the ship and follow Plunder a trail whilst blindfolded! Avast ye! (To rob/steal) Create a blind string trail and test your skills of navigation! Ask a grown up to set up a trail in your home (or outside if you have a safe space). Lead the string around, over, under and behind objects. Wearing a blindfold, see if you can follow the trail to find the treasure! Challenge your friends and family to follow the trail. Who can complete it in the quickest CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO ACCESS VIDEO time? Good luck me hearties! ©2019 Globeducate | Private and Confidential 17 Waterproof Ship and String Trail Use the instructions to find out how to waterproof your pirate ship. We can’t have any sinking ships when we’re out at sea! Interesting Pirate Fact! During the Golden Age of pirates, sugar was more valuable than gold! Click on the link to join in the pirate pogo with Jake and the Never Land Pirates https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxfaHGpQzoU ©2019 Globeducate | Private and Confidential 18 Session 8 Ahoy! Today we are going to try to blend in with the rest of the pirates by making a hook to go on our hands. Then we’ll practice All hands hoy! (Everyone get walking the plank! Are ye brave enough me hearties? on deck) ©2019 Globeducate | Private and Confidential 19 Walk the Plank! You need to have good balance when you walk the plank so that you don’t fall off! Watch the video to see how you can practice, then challenge your family and friends to a competition. Who can walk the plank the fastest without falling off? Can you walk the plank whilst balancing a cushion on your head? Can you do it blindfolded? Good luck matey! Interesting Pirate Fact: Some pirates really did have hooks for hands or peg legs because they got injured during battle.
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