Workshop Schedule: "Empires of the Wind: Exploration of the United States Pacific West Coast"

 

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July 11-16, 2010 Times each day are tentative

August 1-6, 2010 Times each day are tentative

 

 

Below is an overview of the workshop schedule:

 

DAY 1:

Registration

Introduction and Workshop/Curriculum Project Overview

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 Cabrillo National Monument

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

Reflection and Curriculum Development

Conclusion and discussion

 

DAY 3:

Introductions and daily workshop schedule

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 oceonography and climatology of the Pacific and the American west coast"

Presentation and Discussion by Bob Schwemmer

Lecture and Discussion by Dr. Ray Ashley: "Science and Seafaring: the role of Pacific navigation in the creation of modern nation states"

Exhibit Activity

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: "California both as an island and an administrative extension of New Spain"

Travel to Old Town State Historic Park

Site Tour

Reflection and Curriculum Development

Conclusion and discussion

 

DAY 5:

Introductions and daily workshop schedule

Lecture and Discussion by Dr. Iris Engstrand: "Empires in collision: the Nootka Sound Crisis"

Exhibit Activity

Lecture and Discussion by Bruce Linder: "Americans in the Pacific"

Reflection and Curriculum Development

Conclusion and discussion

 

DAY 6:

Introductions and daily workshop schedule

Musuem Tour

Out to Sea sailing on the Californian

Reflection and Curriculum Development

Conclusion and discussion