Partner-Ship is a year-long project at Dr. Morris Gibson School. We're just starting so this web-site is dynamic. The goal is for students to learn the teamworking skills and while using technology and working on different tasks. To do this, students spend all Wednesday afternoons working in multi-aged, collaborative teams in one of four areas:

• Researching historical ships and the struggle to survive on limited supplies while exploring. How did people aviod getting sick on stale supplies? How did they preserve their supplies? How did the preparation of food contribute to the Franklin disaster?
• The second task is creating puppets and a script telling about the rigours of exploration based on the research they've done. The plan is to have students pre-record and digitally alter and edit the script, then make the puppets to tell the story.
• Students explore bouyency and build their own ships in the Ship Building portion of the Partner-Ship. Many materials are used. Did you know you can make metal float?
• Robots are everywhere in our world! They do jobs humans don't want to do. We're building a sequence of robots that safely take on the tiring job of loading our ship. Look at the start of the project or go to the main Robotics in Gibson page.

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