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Staten Island Unit Curriculum Materials

Pumping an air-powered cannon in the program "Sentinels of Our Shores"

Pumping an air-powered cannon in the education program "Sentinels of Our Shores."

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Sentinels of Our Shores is a program for grades four and five, offered at the National Parks of New York Harbor Education Center. Students learn how forts and cannon protected New York Harbor from invasion by sea, testing air-powered cannon and using map skills.
 
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Did You Know?

The NC 4 in flight.

The first transatlantic flight departed from the Rockaway Naval Air Station on Jamaica Bay in 1919.  Today, it is the site of Gateway NRA's Jacob Riis Park.