The park offers a variety of educational opportunities from lessons to use in the classroom to ranger-led programs aboard the historic ships at Hyde Street Pier.
A Field Trip Guide (1.2 MB) for the fourth and fifth grades is available. This guide contains information on the ships in the collection and pre-visit, on-site, and post-visit activities.
Two curriculums are also available:
California and the Sea is a series of eight lessons for the fourth grade.
The is for fourth, fifth, and sixth graders and is linked to the exhibits on display in the park's visitor center.