Loren was showing us shapes.
	We were looking for shapes.
We are still looking for shapes on the ship.
	We were drawing lines outlining a ship.
This is the Maine Maritime Museum before it was built. It was a shipbuilding place.
	We were going in the boat shop where they build boats.
We are bending wood. They put the wood in a steam box it makes it hot. That's how to bend them.
	We were drilling holes in the wood like we were ship builders.
We were using a plane to shave off part of the wood to make it smooth.
	We are measuring how long the Wyoming was.
The students looked for shapes that shipbuilders used and made shapes with clay. They looked at half-models as patterns for building a full sized ship. In the Boat Shop they drilled holes, planed wood and shaped wood like ship builders used to do. The Wyoming was a ship built at the Percy and Small Shipyard, in the location of the Maine Maritime Museum. Students tried to picture how long it was by using rope stretched out to its full length.

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