Explorer Battleship — STJ on the Move

The battleship game is a fun culminating activity following our study of map skills and locating latitude & longitude coordinates. The black lights and glow in the dark map add some extra excitement to the game! Our version is called “Explorer Battleship” because we just finished studying some of the early explorers to North America, and the types of ships they sailed. The students each have a printed copy of a world map and decide their ship’s location and coordinates on the map.

Four teams compete to sink the opposing team’s ship by calling out a latitude/longitude coordinate. The large glow-in-the-dark floor map is used to help guide them when locating coordinates. When a ship has been sunk, the appropriate ship card is placed in its spot on the floor map. The winning team is determined by which team has the last remaining ship still sailing the ocean blue!

-Mrs. Robin Parquette, 5th grade teacher