(( Shipwreck Central )) - Shipwrecks Teach History

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Matching Shipwreck Central for schools to your curriculum

Our Shipwreck Central Teaching Modules have evolved from over ten years of producing documentary television. Our two series, "Oceans of Mystery" and "The Sea Hunters" developed from our love of shipwrecks and the fascinating stories they reveal about the growth and complexity of human society. Each Module we create is directly linked to Shipwreck Central, our web site. This fully interactive site allows your students to search for shipwrecks around the world and to view video clips of some of the world's most famous shipwreck sites. The website also gives, via our Live from the Dive blog, an opportunity to speak directly with the " Sea Hunter's" divers and archaeologists while they are working on location.

Through the use of the Teaching Modules in conjunction with the "Sea Hunters" videos and the interactivity of the Shipwreck Central Website teachers have at their disposal a wide array of resource based learning tools. These tools will expose students to a wide range of print, non-print and human resources. They will also assist teachers as they work to create an effective instructional environment that supports diverse and varied learning styles, multiple intelligences and abilities of individual students. The interactivity provided by "Shipwreck Central for schools" is important in the struggle to actively engage all students in the learning process.

All shipwrecks are inexorably linked to the total of human interaction. Each shipwreck represents a spellbinding doorway to the past, a portal to a dated record of man's scientific, technological and cultural development. Shipwreck stories are also tales of great bravery, terror, heroism and death. They capture the human imagination like no other artifact. Their stories will capture your students and bring history and social studies to life! Your students will meet, through the module's video or DVD, and through Shipwreck Central, the divers, historians and archaeologists who search for, and interpret wreck sites. These men and women lead fascinating real lives interacting with human history. They, through their chosen vocations, give added relevance to your subject matter by cementing the importance of the study of historic artifacts in the present day. They are wonderful role models. We believe that shipwrecks teach history. They have been teaching us for years. We believe that these modules will assist history and social studies teachers, all over North America and the world, in meeting their standard curriculum requirements while exciting students with a true encounter with living history.

The Importance of Preserving Shipwrecks

Canada has long been a leader in the international effort to protect and preserve important underwater heritage sites, including shipwrecks. Canada, through the Department of Heritage, works to protect Canadian sites and is a leader in the United Nations (UNESCO) effort to protect underwater cultural heritage worldwide. It is our hope that through the use of Shipwreck Central and our Teaching Modules, students, teachers and the public at large will learn more about the historic value of shipwrecks and will develop a greater understanding of their importance.