The Noble Maritime Collection
Staten Island, NY
Education Programs
Museum Lessons on the Waterfront
The museum's location is historic Snug Harbor, a former mariner's dormitory. Snug Harbor overlooks the Kill van Kull, one of the world's busiest waterways. We have transformed the sailors' rooms into inspiring classrooms, furnished with art, maps, and artifacts.
Activities range form dramatic storytelling, singing, drawing, printmaking, and painting to creative writing and boat tours. Lessons can be adapted for special education, early childhood, and after school groups.
Every leader will receive a classroom activity package to prepare their students for their visit.
Programs can be adapted to meet the needs of Special Education classes.
LUNCH SPACE IS AVAILABLE.
HISTORY and LOCAL LORE
Learn history through storytelling, art and song.
For grades K-7,
75 minute session. $5 per person.
Young Jack's Voyage
Relive the experiences of young Jack, bound away on his first voyage aboard
an early nineteenth century sailing ship. Create your own ship in a drawing
workshop, sing a sailor’s song, and act out life aboard a ship.
NYS standards emphasis:
S.S. - #1, 2, 3
Language Arts - # E2, E3, E5
The Arts - # 1, 2, 3, 4
Lady Liberty
She is an expert on the history of New York harbor, its vessels,
occurrences, creatures and human inhabitants from the Ice Age until today.
Create a giant "time line" with real nautical rope and draw a harbor scene.
NYS standards emphasis:
S.S. - #1, 2, 3, 4
Language Arts - #E2, E3, E5
The Arts - #1, 2, 3, 4
ART WORKSHOPS and EXHIBITIONS
Printmaking: Monoprints
Your class will compose, draw, and print monoprints on our press and explore the art and artifacts exhibited in the museum's second floor Education Center.
NYS standards emphasis:
Visual Arts - #1, 2, 3, 4
Watercolor
Painting and Drawing
An introduction to the technique and tools needed to make marine inspired art. Students will prepare drawings, mix washes and learn to control and let loose this delicate and expressive medium.
NYS standards emphasis:
Visual Arts - #1, 2, 3, 4
The Galleries
NYS standards emphasis:
Visual Arts - #3, 4
Language Arts - E3b
(especially for the middle
and upper grades)
Adding a guided tour of our art galleries, the Noble Houseboat Studio, and the recreation of a Sailor's Snug Harbor dormitory room can help young visitors understand how to enjoy and use an exhibition as a primary source. Students explore exhibitions, respond to the art and artifacts and gently -but firmly- learn museum etiquette and connoisseurship.
For grades 3 - Adult,
30 minutes/$2 per person.
AT YOUR SCHOOL and ON THE WATER
Customized classroom programs, a boat trip, and a free traveling library.
Young
Jack's Voyage
A one hour version of our favorite lesson; see the previous listing.
K- 5, 3 lesson per day/$450.
American History Through Song
Teaching classic American folksongs can bring textbook facts to life. Performer Bob Conroy of the musical group Stout uses banjo, guitar, and an exciting authentic repertoire that spans from the American Colonial period through the Civil Rights Movement.
K - 5, 10 day series,
4 lessons per day/$3000.
Per Diem: 4 lessons/$400
NYS standards emphasis:
The Arts - #1, 2, 3, 4
S.S. - #1, 2, 3, 4
The Noble Harbor Launch
Enjoy the great sites of New York Harbor aboard a boat. Groups of up to 100 can explore the Kill van Kull, view the wooden ships' bone yard, sketch the Bayonne Bridge, watch modern containership operations and a working dry dock, and, of course, marvel at the Statue of Liberty.
(Seasonal - call for rates.)
NYS standards emphasis:
The Arts - #1, 2, 3, 4
S.S. - #1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Career - #1, 2
The Floating Studio Residency
Our teaching artist will lead skill building art lessons in landscape, still
life, drawing and painting, all with a nautical theme. Three consecutive
lessons per day, 30 students in each class. Prices for two to eight day
residencies on request. All grade levels.
The Traveling Maritime Library
A memorial to educator Kevin Sheehy
NYS standards emphasis:
English Language Arts - #E1, E5
The Arts - #3, 4
We have compiled a selection of books about art and maritime history. They are packed into an old sea trunk and geared for three reading levels. Each trunk is full of books for you to read to your students or for them to enjoy on their own. The Traveling Maritime Library is available for your classroom for one month at no charge. Please call to reserve this rewarding resource for your classroom before or after a museum visit.
Click below to see a specific list of available books: