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Building Boats

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students research different types of boats in various time periods and cultures. Then they locate photographs and information about construction details of one type of boat. Students also use their research as the basis for designing and...
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Boat Safety and Water Sports - Lesson 19 - Wake Board Tricks

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Wake board tricks, like the tantrum, whirlybird, and the flip, are pretty advanced tricks to learn. This fun lesson describes how to perform each of these tricks. It takes a lot of practice, along with a lot of spills and tumbles, to be...
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Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat"

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the relationship of man and nature as portrayed in Stephen Crane's, The Open Boat." The third person, omniscient point of view, the depth of character analysis found in the story, and the emotions evoked by the author...
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Boat Hull Design

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Working in small groups young scholars develop three alternative boat designs. They discuss the rationale for the type of hull, propeller, location of ballast, and type of building material used in their design. They build their boat.
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The Coat Got Soaked on the Boat

For Students 1st Standards
This silly story of a family, their pet goat, a coat, and boat will capture your pupils' attention as they work on the long /o/ sound, the oa digraph, and reading comprehension.
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Great Streamboat Race

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students analyze currents. In this Science lesson, students race small boats in a creek or stream. Students time the currents and collect organisms from the creek or stream.
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Boat Safety and Water Sports - Lesson 9 - Conditioning for Water Skiing

For Teachers 9th - 12th
It takes muscle strength and muscle endurance to get up on a water ski or wake board, and to stay up. Lesson 9 out of this 22 lesson unit is about conditioning. A resource link at the bottom of the page allows you to view all the lesson...
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Boat: Print and Color

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this word recognition learning exercise, students trace the word "boat," write the word independently, and color the picture of the boat.
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Creating the Ideal Cargo Boat

For Teachers 5th - 7th
  Students build boats out of clay to test the buoyancy of the boat in water.  Students break into pairs and construct their boat to specific guide lines, then experiment with their boat in the water.   
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Cardboard Boat Challenge

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students build a boat out of cardboard and tape. They apply Archimedes' Principle to their design.
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Different types of boats

For Students 6th - 8th
In this literacy activity, students find the vocabulary terms for different types of boats. The answers are found at the bottom of the page.
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Paddle Power

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
Potentially get all the way across the water. The fourth of five design challenges asks pupils to develop a plan for a paddle-powered boat that will store its energy. Given a limited number of supplies, the class members design, build,...
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Watercraft

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
Whatever floats your boat—with some additional weight. The first activity in a five-part series challenges pupils to design a boat to hold pennies. Using the design process, learners design, build, and test their boats, making sure they...
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Biggest Boat

For Teachers K - 1st
In this boat worksheet, students color the biggest boat in the picture. Students have 2 boats to choose from to determine which one is the biggest.
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Solve a Problem: Build a Boat

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students build a boat that float and hold as many pennies as possible, then discuss the process of building the boat and relate the experience to experiences they encounter in life.
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Boat Safety and Water Sports - Lesson 16 - Hand Signals, Water Skiing

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Lesson 16 is part of a twenty-two instructional activity unit on boat safety and water sports. Pupils practice the proper hand signals to retrieve a water skiier who has fallen down in the water. It is suggested to click on the resource...
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Transportation from Around the World

For Teachers K - 2nd
Take a look at how people around the world get from here to there. Each slide provides an image and description of various types of transportation found around the globe. In Venice they use a boat, in San Francisco they use a Trolley...
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Transportation Then and Now

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Compare and contrast how transportation has changed throughout the years. This image-driven slide show depicts a variety of advances in transportation. Covered wagons, coaches, trolley cars, boats, and bikes are shown as they were in the...
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Boat Safety and Water Sports - Lesson 11 - Fundamentals (Machine)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Lesson 11 is part of a 22 lesson unit on boat safety and water sports. This lesson tests the learner's skill and knowledge on proper usage of the Perfect Pull machine used for water skiing. 
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Stephen Crane: The Open Boat

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore the genre of American literary naturalism by reading,"The Open Boat" by Stephen Crane. They examine the relationship of man and nature through analysis of the characters, narration and descriptive vocabulary.
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Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat"

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students critically examine the relationship of man and nature in Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat." students examine the third person point of view and conduct in-depth character analysis.
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How Many Missed the Boat?

For Students 9th - 12th
In this math activity, students play a game and guess how many missed the boat. The whole idea behind the game is to make conjectures and draw conclusions based on the provided data.
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Small Salamader in boat dot to dot 1 - 25

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this connect the dots worksheet, students connect the dots to make a small salamander in a boat. Students connect the dots for numbers 1 through 25.
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Exploring Media: Understanding and Identifying Editorial Perspective in Television and Radio News

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Young scholars research the topics Boat People: A Refugee Crisis, Dr. Henry Morgentaler: Fighting Canada's Abortion Laws, and CANDU: The Canadian Nuclear Reactor on the CBC Radio and Television Archives Web site.

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