Welcome to the
Pirate
Club, a special place for children.
If your class has
visited the Maritime Museum or your family are members of the
Museum, you can send in art work, poetry, jokes, or photographs
with a maritime theme to be displayed on this page. Only
first names and ages will be used, as below.
Cat Quiz (from
Benjamin 5 1/2)
1. What dessert do
cats like?
2. What do cats like
on hot days?
3. What do cats put
in their drinks?
4. What do cats eat
for breakfast?
5. Where do cats go
to be educated?
6. Why wouldn't they
let the cat into the flea circus?
7. What cat will grow
wings and fly?
CLICK HERE FOR THE ANSWERS
While we wait for
more mail to arrive, here is the picture of Saucy Sal and her
companion, Priscilla the Parrot, from our education room.
Check out some of
these fun links:
A Variety of Activities
-
Australian Maritime Safety Authority
Boatsafe
Kids
Canadian Waters
Marine and Safety Tasmania (click on titles to print
& complete these activities in PDF)
National Maritime Museum (UK) (things to make)
National Maritime Museum (UK) (games & quizzes)
Odyssey
Maritime Discovery Centre
Sea
Games (includes action, puzzle, strategy & word games) 
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Interactive Games -
Escape from Antarctica (interactive activity - learn to use
a sextant & take the place of the navigator on Shackleton's
expedition)
Explore the Oceans (a challenging game from BBC)
Stop Whaling (a game from Greenpeace)
US Environmental Protection Agency - Estuaries (3
activities)
US
Environmental Protection Agency - Polluted Run-off (loads of
activities)
Stories -
Dunnbar
Bound (choose your own story about pirates)
Pirates
- National Geographic Kids (choose your own story about real
pirates)
Swahili Folk Tale (help Prince Sadaka complete tests as he
sails across the Indian Ocean)
Trim, the Ship's Cat (the story of Flinders' cat, 2 levels of
reading, with audio)
Music -
Songs of the Sea (with words; music plays in the background
making it easy to sing along)
Jokes and Riddles -
Fish
and Sea Jokes
Ocean
Jokes and Riddles
Fascinating Facts & Quirky Quizzes -
Amazing Facts about Porpoises and Dolphins (a quiz from
National Geographic)
Dynamite Dolphin Quiz (from National Geographic)
Gross
and Disgusting Things Under the Sea
Shark Surfari (a quiz about sharks from National Geographic)
Weird and Amazing
Ocean Wonders
Codes, Puzzles and Mazes -
A-maze-ing Mazes (3 mazes from National Geographic,
including a school of fish maze)
Block Bonanza (help load the ship full of gold)
Boat and Bolt (play a tetris game to build a boat and escape
from an island)
Lost Treasure (match the words to the pictures to find the
lost treasure)
Morse Code (includes a
translator - text/code & code/text, with audio)
Penguin Jigsaw Puzzle (from the ABC)
Pirates Word Search (pdf format with clues & hidden final
word - with
answers)
Pyrates Code (use the decoder machine to print out a message
for a friend to decode)
Reef of Lost Words (find a list of words in an underwater
setting)
Seal Jigsaw Puzzle (from the ABC)
Tasmanian Islands - Word Search (a word document to print
out)
Theodore Tugboat Jigsaw (a 16 piece puzzle)
Theodore Tugboat Word Find (an interactive site with three
levels)
Arcade and Platform Games -
Dolphin
(swim as a dolphin to catch rings and fish)
Fishing Fun
(use your fishing rod to catch fish)
Golden Cave
(swim as a seal to find treasure)
Hugo goes Fishing
(use your net to catch fish)
SeaHunter
(a game of battle ships)
Ship Ahoy (use your cannon to shrink the ships!)
Sink the Ship (set the gyro so the torpedo sinks the enemy
ship)
Tuna Trapper
(use your net to catch tuna from a fishing boat)
Theodore Tugboat Word Find (an interactive site with three
levels)
Screen Savers & Wall Paper -
Aquarium
Fish Screen Savers (2 free ones included)
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Antarctic Wall Papers (choose from seal, penguins, ice
reflections, killer whales or an ice berg)
Antarctic Wall Papers (choose from a huge number of great
backgrounds)
Lost Liners
Screen Saver (download from PBS online)
Whale
Screen Saver (download from the Whale & Dolphin Conservation
Society)
WW2 PT Boat Wall Paper (screen saver soon to be added to
this site)
Colouring In -
Odyssey Marine Discovery Centre (10 pictures to print &
colour)
If you find
another good website that you think should be listed here,
please email the address to
Marianne.
Please note that many of these activities
are on other sites, not part of the Maritime Museum. They have
been checked for family safe content, but content can change. If
you see something that's inappropriate,
let me know.
