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