“On the Bridge”
Cruise ship simulation 

Health and Human Services Pathway

Day 1: Introduction to Program

• Welcome: Teacher wears captain’s hat, has place cards and a lifesaver at everyone’s place, could also check tickets as ‘passengers’ enter, give out postcards, ship pins 
• Bulletin Board: Map of region sailing for this cruise (Mexico, Caribbean, Hawaii, Mediterranean, Canada, Alaska, Asia, South Pacific) 
• Destination for course: Attendance, Occupational/Grad requirements for graduation 
• Overview of 8 day curriculum 

• Journey through the Dept. – a short walk through all three labs with teacher 

• Introduction to workplace environment – the ‘S.S. Ingraham’ ship size, destination, name of ship, tonnage, # of rooms, # of passengers and crew, # of decks, entertainment features 

• Hospitality/tourism jobs:  students choose jobs aboard ship, every area considered (e.g. entertainer, purser, infirmary,)  

• Career opportunities/responsibilities: health, licenses, customer service, safety, knowledge 

• Skills and aptitudes: pathways, best personal choices, job application for these jobs 

• Video of ship: send for sample cruising video packets (typically 10 – 15 minutes) 

Day 2: Introduction to Textiles, Fiber Arts, Clothing, and Fashion 

• Orientation to Clothing and Textiles Lab

• Career opportunities in the field

• Skills and Aptitudes 

• Wardrobe design and selection Need: magazines, pattern books, fabric swatches 

• Find, draw or cut and mount work uniform, recreation, formal, leisure, touring clothing 

• Machine operation, sample threading, parts of sewing machine, sew lines, curves, and practice paper stitching around a diagram (a sailboat, on flat and wavy seas)  (See activity sheet A at end of this curriculum.)

Day 3: continued – sew a simple kleenex holder

• Textile construction project (Kleenex holder) Need: fabric, thread, sewing equipment

Day 4: Introduction to Housing and Design

• Career opportunities

• Skills and Aptitudes

• Render a design using ¼ scale furniture templates and a ship’s cabin at ¼ scale (See activity sheets B, C and D)

• Include discussion of  furnishings, color, space, durability, light, size, use, and cost

• Need: ¼ cabin design to scale; ¼ furniture templates, interior magazines, rulers, carpet/floor samples, color/wood/wallpaper/paint swatches, scissors, glue, 9 x 18 paper, examples of cabin layouts, ship cross-section of various decks

Day 5: Introduction to Nutrition, Food, Culinary Arts

• Orientation to Food and Nutrition Lab: location of specialty items, placemats, dishes, timing, safe and clean food handling, nutrients, sample ship menus, preparation techniques and demo of food prepared, types of meal service, cooking, management, safety, plating, hours, interest

• Teacher Demonstration: Forgotten Cookies

Day 6: continued – Prepare, serve, evaluate a ‘Royal Dutch Tea’

Day 7: Introduction to Health and Human Services: Children, Family, Welfare, Community

• Career opportunities

• Skills and aptitude

• Shore tour to a local pre-school lab

• Match jobs to descriptions: (e.g. Early Childhood Educator – a teacher who teaches children under age 5)

• Games/activities/reading in the lab (See activity sheet G)

Day 8: Marketing the next Tour (Program) 

• Review previous week – return work completed

• Show slide show of Leadership of FCCLA successes

• Give out FACSE program pamphlet

• Speaker: FCCLA officer presents personal benefits of program

• Students get a laminated triangular white bookmark, a blue block letter ‘I’

• Evaluation

Bon voyage!

Activity Sheet A

Activity Sheet B

Activity Sheet C

Activity Sheet D

Activity Sheet E

Activity Sheet F

Activity Sheet G

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