Tea and Taxes

Sultana's hands-on maritime history program, Tea and Taxes, brings 18th century Colonial seafaring to life in your K-6 classroom.  During this hour-long presentation, students handle period objects like surgical tools, hard tack, tea bricks, and 18th century navigational instruments to learn about the rewards and challenges faced by crewmembers on Sultana while enforcing the hated "Tea Taxes."  Students will have an opportunity to try out different nautical skills, from measuring the depth of the water with a lead line, to determining the vessel's speed with a chip log, to pulling a tooth, colonial-style. 
 

Pre and post trip activities are available in Sultana's reproducible
workbook "Sea of Change:  Sultana, the Tea Taxes, and the Dawn of the American Revolution", which is available as a hard copy or by download here.