Label the Parts of a Ship Printables for 2nd to 8th Grades
These free printable Parts of a Ship Notebooking Pages and Worksheets are a fantastic complement to your study of ships, pirates, or world history of explorers.
The Parts of a Ship Notebooking Pages and Worksheets also coordinate well with any literature study that is set on a modern or historical sailing ship.
Students in elementary and middle school can label the parts of a modern maritime vessel, or a historical sailing clipper with the Label the Ship Worksheets, which include word banks of the appropriate parts of that type of sailing vessel.
Then, with the Parts of a Ship notebooking pages, they can describe each of the parts of the ship and what the function or purpose of that part of the ship and what it is used for.
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Resources for Learning about the Parts of Ships
You may want to use these references to help your student correctly identify all of the different parts of ships:
Library List:
The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Ships and Boats by Graham Blackburn
Crossing on Time: Steam Engines, Fast Ships, and a Journey to the New World by David Macaulay
Online Resources and Hands-on Activities:
Anatomy of a Pirate Ship from the site Pirate Glossary
Parts and Identification of Military Ships from the U.S. Navy
Make this Pirate Ship craft from a paper plate
These notebooking pages and worksheets are generally for students working at the 2nd to 8th grade levels.
Parts of Ships Printables
The Parts of a Ship notebooking pages come in 3 handwriting levels, with a historical sailing “pirate” ship and a modern ocean liner image for each level.
There are 8 printable pages in this packet.
Here are the word banks or vocabulary words for the Label the Ship worksheets
Modern Maritime Vessel Vocabulary Words:
- Propeller and Rudder
- Hull
- Bow
- Deck
- Poop Deck
- Anchor
- Keel
- Stern
- Funnel
- Bridge or Wheelhouse
- Antenna
Historical Sailing Vessel Vocabulary Words:
- Crow’s Nest
- Mast
- Mainsail
- Cannon ports
- Sails
- Anchor
- Captain’s Cabin
- Main Deck
- Rudder
- Hull
- Bow Sprit
- Helm
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More Nautical Ship Homeschooling Resources
The Parts of a Ship Worksheets and Notebooking Pages go well with these literature and science, technology, engineering, and math-based homeschooling resources:
Pirates in the Park Literature + STEM Unit Study for elementary aged students
Swiss Family Robinson Literature + STEAM Unit Study best for middle and high school students
And also check out these Explorer’s Ships Notebooking Pages
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