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81 resources with the concept boats

Buoyant Boats Activities & Project

Buoyant Boats

7th - 9th
CCSS: Designed
New ReviewEureka! Using the clay boats made in the previous lesson, learners investigate the idea of buoyancy and water displacement to finish the last installment of five in a Floaters and Sinkers unit. Their observations during the activity...
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Clay Boats Activities & Project

Clay Boats

7th - 9th
New ReviewClay itself sinks, but clay boats float. Why? Young engineers build clay boats to learn about buoyancy. They test the weight the boats can hold using washers and then tweak their designs to make improvements, following the engineering...
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Paddle Power Activities & Project

Paddle Power

4th - 8th
New ReviewPotentially 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 Activities & Project

Watercraft

4th - 8th
New ReviewWhatever 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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Airboats Lesson Plan

Airboats

3rd - 8th
Don't let the resource blow you away. Scholars build airboats from basic materials and collect data on how far the boats move. They refine their designs taking Newton's laws into consideration.
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Vector Multiplied by a Scalar: Boat Race Interactive

Vector Multiplied by a Scalar: Boat Race

11th - Higher Ed
CCSS: Designed
Find the right number of vectors to get to the finish line. Using a boat race scenario, pupils add multiples of the same vector together. The scholars use scalar multiplication to speed up the boats in an exciting race to the finish. 
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The Boat Parade Worksheet

The Boat Parade

1st
CCSS: Adaptable
Make way for the summer boat parade! First graders read about characters' favorite part of the boat festivities with a short passage and set of four comprehension questions.
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Boat Building Challenge Activities & Project

Boat Building Challenge

3rd - 5th
Scholars build a boat using an assortment of materials such as foam plates, aluminum foil, and skewers, then test its buoyancy with pennies. Challenge boat builders to construct the strongest or fastest boat in a healthy competition with...
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Float a Boat Unit

Float a Boat

3rd - 8th
CCSS: Designed
Build a floating vessel capable of carrying cargo. Groups create a vessel that floats and can carry at least 10 pennies to model a mass transit system. After learning about buoyancy, density, and energy, they redesign their vessels in...
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History of Sailboats Lesson Plan

History of Sailboats

7th - 12th
What kind of sailboat is that? A slideshow presentation outlines the history of sailboats with a series of pictures that demonstrate the design changes over the years, as well as the different classifications of sailboats. 
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Introduction to Sailboats Lesson Plan

Introduction to Sailboats

7th - 12th
The left part of the boat is called what? An informative lesson and accompanying slideshow presentation introduce middle schoolers to the terminology and parts associated with a sailboat.
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Transport Song Video
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Transport Song

1 min Pre-K - 3rd
CCSS: Adaptable
Planes, trains, cars, feet, boats, buses, and bikes. Sing along with a music video and watch hand-drawn animation that highlights modes of transportation. 
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Transportation Word Cards Printables & Template

Transportation Word Cards

Pre-K - K
Beep beep! Zoom! Honk honk! Explore the world of transportation with a set of transportation picture word cards. Fifteen cards show trucks, planes, trains, boats, and many more types of transportation, complete with pictures and names. 
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Corruption, Wealth and Beauty: The History of the Venetian Gondola Video

Corruption, Wealth and Beauty: The History of the Venetian Gondola

5 mins 6th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
How did the Venetian gondola get its distinctive look? Using this fantastic animated video, your class will be amazed to see how a seemingly simple construction can illustrate so much about a particular culture and historical time period.
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Taking the Boat to Manaus Lesson Plan

Taking the Boat to Manaus

5th
Fifth graders apply the concepts they know regarding mass, volume and density in the previous activities to design a boat. Student teams must make a boat which can travel the waters of the Amazon Rainforest. Each group makes a...
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Boat Building Lesson Plan

Boat Building

Pre-K - 2nd
Tiny scientists test a variety of materials for their ability to float. They draw and describe the properties of each material. There are 10 activity sheets to be filled out, which may be too time consuming for kindergartners. Perhaps a...
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What Floats Your Boat? Lesson Plan

What Floats Your Boat?

4th - 6th
This open-ended boat building exercise is meant to be part of a three-lesson plan series on ships. Links to the other two lessons are included. This particular part is mostly a group lab activity in which they build a boat, find its load...
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Boat Safety and Water Sports - Lesson 14 - Hand Signals Lesson Plan

Boat Safety and Water Sports - Lesson 14 - Hand Signals

9th - 12th
When water skiing or wake boarding, hand signals are the most effective way of communicating. Use this instructional activity on boat safety to ensure that your youngsters are using the proper precautions before engaging in water sports.
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Buoyant Boats Lesson Plan

Buoyant Boats

4th
Fourth graders explore the concept of mass and buoyancy. After building boats out of several materials, they predict whether each boat floats if certain objects are added. Students test their predictions and draw conclusions from their...
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How can a ship carry all these taconite pellets and still float? Lesson Plan

How can a ship carry all these taconite pellets and still float?

6th - 8th
Groups of two to four work together to design, construct, and experiment with a boat. Each boat must include all of the major parts of a real ship, be less than 12 inches long, and be able to carry a load up twice its own weight in calm...
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Transportation Then and Now Presentation

Transportation Then and Now

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 18 - Wake Board Terms Lesson Plan

Boat Safety and Water Sports - Lesson 18 - Wake Board Terms

9th - 12th
Boat safety lesson 18 is all about the wake board.  The class learns the terminology about wake boards and discusses the different types of ropes used. Much of the information regarding boating basics, personal floatation devices, and...
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Boat Safety and Water Sports - Lesson 21 - Wake Boarding Review Lesson Plan

Boat Safety and Water Sports - Lesson 21 - Wake Boarding Review

9th - 12th
In boat safety lesson 21, the class reviews the basic techniques of wakeboarding. They review the skills and perform them in the pool with a partner. There are many resource links associated with this lesson.
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Boating Safety and Water Sports - Lesson 3 - First Aid Lesson Plan

Boating Safety and Water Sports - Lesson 3 - First Aid

9th - 12th
What are the basic first aid supplies that should be on a boat? What should be done when someone stops breathing and/or their heart stops beating? Lesson three is only one of twenty-two lessons on boat safety. This lesson is about first...
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