The Collaboration
between the Academy and Philadelphia City Sail, Inc. has created an exciting program known as Schoolship. It gives students a chance for experiential learning and a real life context for learning about watersheds. Students who take part in the program use direct, hands-on scientific observation and measurement to examine aquatic ecology, geography and other features of the Delaware River watershed.

The program includes teacher training, pre- and post-trip classroom visits by program educators, and the on-the-water component itself. Students spend an entire day on a 75' schooner and visit five learning stations.
These stations offer the opportunity to gain hands-on experience in:

• navigational skills
• weather prediction
• plankton sampling, ecology, and identification
• lookout (maritime industry, watersheds, tides, wildlife watching)
• water quality testing

Click on the image below to hear about the Schoolship experience and see what students do on-board City Sail's schooner, Jolly II Rover.

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For information on how to sign up, contact

Philadelphia City Sail
PO Box 43235 | Pier 36 South Columbus Boulevard | Philadelphia, PA 19129
Phone: 215-271-3400 | Fax: 215-271-0234 | E-mail: info@citysail.org

Get Out into Your Watershed and See What's Around!