The document provides instructions for students to construct a model of an ancient Minoan ship. It includes links to resources on Minoan ship designs and asks students to draw their ship to scale on graph paper. Students are asked to consider what type of ship they will make and why ships were important to the Minoan civilization.

1. Objective: December 14, 2007 1. The Minoans 2. Can you construct a ship like the ancient Minoans Homework:

2. Warm Up!! Please take one piece of paper out of the newspaper bin! Time to make a paper ship!

3. Wonders are many on Earth, and the greatest of these, Is man, who rides the oceans and takes his way, Through the deeps through the wind swept valleys of perilous seas that surge and sway Sophocles 495 BCE

4. What did the ships look like?? http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Ships/Ships.htm

5. TRANSITIONAL

6. YOUR TOPIC GOES HERE YOUR SUBTOPIC GOES HERE

13. The Parts of a Minoan Ship!

14. The Inside of a Minoan Ship!

15. How do I make a Minoan ship? 1. You will work with your partner 2. First draw to scale (on the graph paper) your ship. EXAMPLE: One square = inches One inch = inches 3. Make your scale 4. What type of boat are you going to make? (question # 4 on your reflection sheet) Fighting Transporting Fishing Etc. 5. Think…why were ships important to Minoans (question # 2 on your reflection sheet)

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