• Introduction
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • Credits
  • Best Picks
  • Curriculum Connections Chart
• Understanding the Chesapeake Bay
  • Introduction
  • Activity 1: Geography of the Chesapeake Bay
    • Student Reading: The Chesapeake Bay
    • Locate the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
    • Map the Rivers
    • Groundwater vs. Runoff
  • Activity 2: The Workings of the Bay
    • Experiment: Make a Model of a Watershed
    • Experiment: What is an Estuary?
  • Activity 3: Maryland Map Study - Cooperative Problem Solving
  • Activity 4: Chesapeake Bay Gateways Map Activities
• Stories of the Watermen
  • Introduction
  • Activity 1: The Captain Salem Avery Story
    • Generations of a Waterman's Family - The Story of Migration
    • Pretend You are a Census-Taker!
    • Analyzing Captain Avery's Inventory
  • Activity 2: Picture Predictions - Objects of an Historic Waterman
    • A Waterman at Home
    • A Waterman at Work
  • Activity 3: Daisy's Big Day:
    • The Story - A Waterman's Child in the 1950s
    • Sequencing Daisy's Big Day
• Science a Waterman Needs to Know
  • Introduction
  • Activity 1: The Vanishing Act of the Chesapeake Bay Oyster
  • Activity 2: Blue Crabs
    • Life Cycle
    • Blue Crab Anatomy
    • Peelers, Busters, and Soft Shells
  • Activity 3: Submerged Aquatic Vegetation
• Harvesting the Catch
  • Introduction
  • Activity 1: Seasons of the Waterman - Make a Mobile
  • Activity 2: How to Catch the Catch
    • Match Game
    • Student Worksheet
  • Activity 3: Chesapeake Bay Workboats
    • Diagram of a Workboat
    • Student Worksheet
  • Activity 4: Graphing the Harvest
    • Maryland Oyster Harvests - 1870 - 2000
    • Maryland Blue Crab Harvests - 1880 - 2000
    • Timeline
    • Student Worksheets - General and Advanced
• Graphic Organizers
  • Introduction
  • Activity 1: KWL - Brainstorming About Watermen
  • Activity 2: Venn Diagram - Watermen, Past and Present
  • Activity 3: Cause and Effect
• Field Trips
• Bibliography
• Watermen's Museums
• Download the Entire Guide
• Helpful Hints

Captain Salem Avery House Museum • Shady Side Rural Heritage Society
Post Office Box 89 • 1418 East West Shady Side Road • Shady Side, Maryland 20764 • 410 867 4486
www.averyhouse.org • averyhouse1@verizon.net