Activity #3 Making a Keeper’s Log

A template of a lighthouse keeper's journal. Print out this image or design your own and fill in the table for one day or more from the early 1900s.

NPS/A. Ruska

Directions:

1. Print Lighthouse Keeper's Log.
2. Write a daily log entry as the lighthouse keeper at the Eagle Harbor Lighthouse. Create a log entry for any date in the early 1900s.
Include details about:

• Observations of shipping traffic.

  • Did ships carrying copper pass through? Where were they going?

• Weather conditions.

  • Was it storming? Were there clouds in the sky?

• Challenges.

  • Was all your equipment working?

 

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