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Lesson Plans and Other Activities

AIMM is committed to providing Arkansas teachers with a wide variety of lesson plans and other resources. Many of these lesson plans do not require a visit to the Museum.

All AIMM lesson plans have been designed to meet specific Arkansas curriculum standards and may be downloaded and reproduced without restriction.

AIMM Lesson Plans

• Using Primary Sources - WWII U.S. Navy Submarine Service Recruiting Posters
• The Role of Geography - The U.S. and the Republic of Turkey
• Economics - Cooking in a Closet: Supply and Demand on a Submarine

If you have any questions about AIMM Lesson Plans, please do not hesitate to contact us

Other Activities

• AIMM Scavenger Hunt - How many questions can you find the answers for?
      (Solutions available upon request, or by visiting the museum)



• Museum Submarine Crossword Puzzle (Online) - How many do you know?
• Museum Submarine Crossword Puzzle (PDF)



• American Submarine History (Online)
• American Submarine History (PDF)



• Answer Keys are available upon request

Links to other Lesson Plans

Please note that the following sites offer a variety of lesson plans that may, or may not, have specific National curriculum standards identified.

• U.S. Navy Historical Center, Washington, DC
• U.S. Navy Meterology and Oceanography Command

National Geographic Lesson Plans:

• Submarines: The Classroom Fleet (Grades K-2)
• Submarines: The Journey of K-19 (Grades 3-5)
• Submarines: A Heated Competition in a Cold War (Grades 6-8)
• Submarines: Underway on Nuclear Power (Grades 9-12)



• Ocean Exploration Museum (Grades 3-5)
• Sluething for a Lost Ship (Grades 6-8)
• Life at Sea: Careers in Marine Science (Grades 6-8)
• Using Maps in Ocean Research (Grades 6-8)



• A Pirate's Life (Grades K-2)
• Pirate Map (Grades 3-5)
• Pirate Archaeology (Grades 6-8)
• Piracy: A Continuing Problem (Grades 9-12)



• The Legacy of Pearl Harbor (Grades 3-5)

Scientific American Frontiers Lesson Plans:

• Beneath the Sea: Blowing Ballast (Grades 5-8)
• Beneath the Sea: ROV Grid Search (Grades 5-8)
• Beneath the Sea: Lightstick Chemistry (Grades 5-8)



• Mysteries of the Deep: Life Sized Drawing (Grades 5-=8)
• Mysteries of the Deep: Leaky Seal (Grades 5-8)

U.S. Department of Energy Lesson Plans

• Can It Carry Cargo? (Grades 2-3)
• Dive Right In (submarine in a soda bottle) (Grades 2-3)

This list of lesson plans was originally developed by Stephanie Bayless, AIMM Museum Intern