ACTIVITY BOOK

Just like an airport is a place for planes to land, load, and unload travelers, the Port of Long Beach is a place where ships come to dock, and pick up or drop off their cargo: things like sneakers, clothes, electronics, cars, fruits and vegetables, computers, toys, and televisions.

When cargo comes into the United States, it’s called an “import” and when something made here gets shipped to another country, it’s called an “export.”

Cargo is transported using large metal boxes called “containers.” These containers are moved on or off ships using giant cranes. The cranes also move containers onto trains and trucks that will transport their cargo across the United States.

Let’s learn some more about the people and things that make up the Port of Long Beach...

A Sneaker Story

So what is a port anyway?

Have you ever wondered how things like sneakers travel all the way from the factories where they’re made to end up on your feet? Solve this little puzzle to find out! Try to figure out what order the boxes go in, from first to last, by writing the numbers 1 through 6 in the white circles.

Answers: 3, 5, 1, 4, 6, 2.

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Cargo Crossword

Name Game Starboard Solution

Across:3. A transport method for cargo on land 4. A bird, and a piece of equipment5. The person in charge of a ship

Down:1. The ocean that borders California2. Contains cargo4. Items being shipped

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Use the symbols to crack the code by matching the symbols. Can you solve the puzzle and figure out where this ship comes from?(Hint: it’s one of the Port’s biggest trading partners!)

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See if you can make it through the color maze! Jump from one container to the next following this pattern: Red, Orange, Blue, Green, Purple, then repeat! You can move up, down, left or right, but not diagonal!

Maze Craze

On a ship, things have different names than they do on land. A kitchen is called a galley, the floor is called the deck, and walls are bulkheads. Another difference is instead of saying left and right, they say port and starboard. When you are facing the same way as a ship is heading, port is on the left, and starboard is on the right. All ships have a green light on their starboard side, and a red light on their port side. This makes it easy for a captain to tell what direction another ship is heading from far away, or when it’s dark out.

Crossword: Down: 1. Pacific, 2. Container, 4. Cargo. Across: 3. Train, 4. Crane, 5. Captain. Name Game Answer: China

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Answer on page 16!

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T R O A I T K P R R T A TS G F C A P T A I E I R N I U O T C T E R D O K R E G A M B A R E V I D O K C O E A A E S R E O O A O M L D A C E I C C P E C N T O I R T C I K A O O R L O I N D J R W C T R N A F G B I E E O R V D T O L W N E C I R N C A I R I F E I N E K O T L O M V M E A A I E S O N N R I I G E T T R E C I F F O E C I L O P A C C O U N T A N T F M A M N A G N D O B O W O E C

Crossword Careers

There are lots of very different jobs at the Port. See if you can find all these careers in the word search:

Marine biologist

Dock worker

Captain Accountant

Diver

Police officer

Bonus: Can you match the career to the person? Draw a line from the word above to the person below.

The number on each container is the sum of the two numbers beneath it. Work out the sums, then use the code to solve the riddle below.

Find 6 differences between these

two cranes!

Spot theDifferences

Container Counting

Sum Fun

What do you call a fish with no eyes?

This trucker’s truck can carry 20 tons. She wants to take the biggest load without going over her limit. What combination lets her take the most weight? What combination lets her take the most containers? Write the letters of the containers in the blank spaces.

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MOST WEIGHT :

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Answers: Sum Fun: A FSH. Container Counting: Most weight = E, F. Most containers = B, D, F.

Answers: Left to right: Police Officer, Accountant, Dock Worker, Ship Captain, Marine Biologist, Diver.

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Word search solution on

page 16!

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Color the port, the diver, and his underwater friends!pg. 6 pg. 7

(connect the dots to see what is appearing on the ship’s radar screen)

Take your ship through the maze to the center, trying to collect as many stars as you can along the way, and then sail your ship back to where you started. Here’s the catch: you can’t cross over your path, or go through the same opening twice. See if you can catch all 18!

How many stars did you catch? Write the number here:

Star Maze

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Port pilots help ship captains navigate their ships through the port. It’s tricky sailing even for experienced captains, so they need port pilots to help. Part of the job is climbing up huge Jacob’s Ladders, like this one, to board the container ships. Who has to climb the tallest ladder, Doug or James? Count their steps, and write them down in these boxes.

Radar RiddleRadar helps the ship’s captain see things below the water’s surface, like this shape below. Radar works by sending out radio signals, and then waiting for them to bounce off the ground and return. Help the captain by connecting the dots below, and figuring out what object the radar is picking up.

Answer: Doug climbs 19 steps, and James climbs 18. Answer: It’s a crab!

Doug James

Doug James

It’s a __ __ __ __

Answer on page 16!

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T O YJ O BDo you know what some of the Port’s top imports are? There are two inside each circle here, and each circle shares one with the circle before it. See if you can figure out which import is common between two neighboring circles, and write it down in the space in between.

Make the top word into the bottom word by changing one letter at a time. Hint: Change the letter in the circled space.

Which two trains are exactly the same?

Imports Game

Letter Ladder

Train Twins

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Answers: Imports Game: 1. Fruit, 2. Electronics, 3. Shoes, 4. Toys. Train Twins: A and D.

Answers: Letter Ladder: Sea, Tea, Ten, Ton. Map, Mop, Mob, Job. Sun, Son, Ton, Toy.

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Port PartnersThe Port of Long Beach trades with ports all over the world, and in other parts of the United States. Follow the tangled lines all across the Pacific Ocean to find the other major ports that the Port of Long Beach trades with.

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Chile

Japan

United States

Mexico

China

Canada

Port of Tokyo

Port of Santiago

Port of Long Beach

Port of Acapulco

Port of Hong Kong

Port of Anchorage, Alaska

Port of Vancouver, B.C.

Did you know? The Pacific Ocean takes up about 1/3 of the Earth’s surface! You could fit all seven continents in

that space, and still have room left over!

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Color this harbor scene, and see if you can find all the creatures on the list above!

Draw it! What do you wish you could

see on a harbor tour?

Ask your Mom or Dad if you can go for a

harbor tour! The Port offers boat cruises May through October. Call or check out the Port

of Long Beach website for more details:

www.polb.com

• A dolphin• A stingray• A sea lion • A crane• A crab• A pelican

• A black crowned night heron• A spiny lobster• A garibaldi fish• 2 starfish with six legs• 6 seagulls• A sea anemone

Find these harbor friends:

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Critter Counting

Team Green!

SUSTAINABLE

The Science

Lab

KIM

KENJESSICA

Lab Report

These environmental scientists have a very important job at the Port: monitoring the wildlife and ensuring that they are healthy and happy! Help them out by counting the fish and birds that they see, and then answering the questions below.

Sustainable means being as good to the earth as possible, and thinking about the impact that you have on the future, just like the Port of Long Beach does.

The Port of Long Beach is one of the greenest ports around! The port does its part by making good choices about what’s best for the earth and for all the critters that you’ve seen in this book who make the port harbor their home. You can help out too by choosing which of these statements is a good environmental choice. Positive choices get awarded green flags (just like how the Port of Long Beach gives green flags to ships that reduce their air pollution) so color the box next to the good choice green.

1. Contribute to the protection of the Bolsa Chica wetlands

2. Use air monitoring stations to check on the air quality

3. Make sure all trucks leave their engines running at the port

4. Discipline ships that blow out too much smoke

5. Throw trash into the ocean, where an animal might eat it

6. Offer a reward to ships that switch to cleaner fuels

7. If you were a sea lion who lived in the port’s waters, what would you want people to do to make sure your environment was healthy and clean?

See how many new words can you make from the word:2-4: Good! 5-7: Awesome!8+: Excellent!

1. How many herons did all three scientists find?

2. How many more yellow fish are there than blue fish?

3. How many blue fish did Ken see?

4. How many fish in total did Kim and Jessica find?

Answers for Team Green: 1, 2, 4, and 6 get green flags! Answers for the Critter Counting: 1. Eight, 2. One, 3. Three, 4. Fourteen.pg. 14 pg. 15

Answer Key

Star Maze Pg. 8Career Crossword Pg. 4Maze Craze Pg. 3T R O A I T K P R R T A TS G F C A P T A I E I R N I U O T C T E R D O K R E G A M B A R E V I D O K C O E A A E S R E O O A O M L D A C E I C C P E C N T O I R T C I K A O O R L O I N D J R W C T R N A F G B I E E O R V D T O L W N E C I R N C A I R I F E I N E K O T L O M V M E A A I E S O N N R I I G E T T R E C I F F O E C I L O P A C C O U N T A N T F M A M N A G N D O B O W O E C

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Draw your own ship! (Don’t forget to draw yourself as the captain!)

Long Beach

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