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Workshop Overview: "Empires of the Wind: Exploration of the United States Pacific West Coast"
DAY 1:
- Docent led tour, 3 vessels within the Maritime Museum of San Diego
- Dinner Break
- Introduction and Workshop/Curriculum Project Overview
- Icebreaker game: where the Wind Blows and Lifeboat
- Registration and Welcome Reception sponsored by the Maritime Museum of San Diego Board of Trustees
DAY 2:
- Introductions and daily workshop schedule
- Lecture and Discussion by Dr. Ray Ashley: "Sailing with Cabrillo from a medieval world to the modern: How maps changed the world view by changing the view of the world"
- Travel to San Salvador build site
- Exhibit Activity
- Travel to Cabrillo National Monument and lunch
- First encounter demonstation activity
- Lecture and Discussion by Dr. Steve Colston: "First People's and their cultures: contacts between Native peoples and Europeans: Cortez, Ulloa, Cabrillo, and Coronado"
- Field Study
- Return travel to Maritime Museum
- Reflection and Curriculum Development
- Conclusion and discussion
DAY 3:
- Introductions and daily workshop schedule
- Lecture and Discussion by Dr. Jim Cassidy: "Native American seafaring and look at prehistoric migration along the Pacific Coast."
- Lecture and Discussion by Dr. Ray Ashley: "Peopling of the Pacific, navigational capabilities of indigenous Pacific peoples"
- Lunch
- Presentation Activity: Who are the Kumeyaay? Instructor Stan Rodriguez from our local Kumeyaay College will present a very rare hands-on activity presentation weaving elements of Kumeyaay language, tool making and traditional foods
- Lecture and Discussion by Dr. David Ringrose: "Cracking the code of the winds: How the quest for empire devolved onto the quest to learn the oceanography and climatology of the Pacific and the American west coast"
- Reflection and Curriculum Development
- Conclusion and discussion
DAY 4:
- Introductions and daily workshop schedule
- Lecture and Discussion by Dr. Kevin Sheehan: "Voyages of the Enlightenment and the founding of California: from HMS Dolphin to the San Carlos"
- Exhibit Activity
- Lecture and Discussion by Dr. Kevin Sheehan: "California both as an island and an administrative extension of New Spain"
- Travel to Old Town State Historic Park
- Lunch
- Site Tour
- Reflection and Curriculum Development
- Conclusion and discussion
DAY 5:
- Introductions and daily workshop schedule
- Travel to the San Diego's Mission Basilica San Diego de Alcala
- Site Tour
- Return travel to Maritime Museum
- Lecture and Discussion by Dr. Iris Engstrand: "Empires in collision: the Nootka Sound Crisis"
- Lunch & Bay tour aboard Pilot and Berkeley engine room tour
- Lecture and Discussion by Bruce Linder: "Americans in the Pacific"
- Reflection and Curriculum Development
- Conclusion and discussion
DAY 6:
- Introductions and daily workshop schedule
- Museum Tour
- Out to Sea sailing on the Californian
- Conclusion and discussion
- Presentation of Certificates



