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Boat Safety and Water Sports - Lesson 10 - Cold Water/Weather

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Lesson 10 is part of a twenty-two lesson unit on boat safety and water sports. It focuses on how to handle cold water and cold weather when water skiing, as well as what to do if hypothermia or frostbite occur. Click on the resource link...
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Boat Safety and Water Sports - Lesson 17 - Review Starts, Introduce Cross-Overs

For Teachers 9th - 12th
How do you cross that gigantic wake behind the boat? Lesson 17 covers the basic techniques of how to cross-over the wakes. Lesson 17 is part of a 22 lesson unit on boat safety and water sports. There are links at the bottom of the page...
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Boat Safety and Water Sports - Lesson 4 - Dangerous Sea Creatures

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Lesson 4 is part of a 22 lesson unit on boat safety and water sports. This lesson is about dangerous sea creatures, mainly in the ocean. There is a link to find pictures of the creatures discussed. It is suggested to click on the...
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Boat Safety and Water Sports - Lesson 12 - Pool, Deep Water Starts

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Lesson 12 is part of a unit on boat safety and water sports. The focus in this lesson is getting up on the water ski using a one-foot start and a two-foot start. It is suggested to click on the resource link at the bottom of the page to...
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Big Boats Up The River

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Using boats along in the Port of Albany as the focus, learners practice adding single-digit numbers and interpreting data. This lesson comes with the worksheets, resource links, and other materials to make it a worthwhile experience.
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Arcademics

Bumper Boat Bash

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
Speed through a bumper boat course to practice making nouns plural. Scholars read 26 plural nouns and choose the correct form out of three to advance their boat closer to the finish line.
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Museum of Science

Paddle Boat

For Teachers K - 6th Standards
Harness the power of rubber bands of all things. A hands-on activity has scholars design and build paddle boats. They learn how the elastic potential energy of rubber bands can be converted to the kinetic energy associated with motion.
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Boat Safety and Water Sports- Lesson 6

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Lesson 6 is part of a twenty-two lesson unit on boat safety and water sports. The focus in this lesson is on water skiing and upper body strength training. There is a word scramble included for a homework assignment.
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Boat Safety and Water Sports - Lesson 21 - Wake Boarding Review

For Teachers 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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Boat Safety and Water Sports - Lesson 22 - Unit Exam

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Lesson 22 is part of a 22 lesson unit on boat safety and water sports. This last lesson is an assessment of what the pupils have learned. Each of them is to demonstrate how to put on a life vest, put on water skis, explain the basic...
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American Chemical Society

Using the Properties of Materials to Improve a Model Boat

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Work together to stay afloat. Using a paper boat, pupils connect properties of materials to their usefulness. They test different paper to determine how many pennies each boat will hold and learn that combining materials with different...
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Buoyant Boats

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners design and construct a boat out of aluminum foil and a few other simple materials. The boats then be tested by floating them in water, then adding mass until they sink. They explore the various shapes of boat construction.
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Foil Boats

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
How many pennies can an aluminum foil boat hold? That is the challenge in a collaborative activity designed to explore the concept of buoyancy. Learners use aluminum foil to build makeshift boats and test the weight they hold before...
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Teach Engineering

What Floats Your Boat?

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
Clay's as good a material as any to build a boat, right? An introductory lesson sets the stage for two activities associated with buoyancy. The first involves building boats out of clay, while the second uses these boats to measure the...
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Teach Engineering

Rock and Boat

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Present the class with a question on whether the water level of a pond will rise they take a large rock out of a boat and drop it into the pond. Groups come down on all sides of the question and try to justify their answers. The activity...
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Physics Classroom

Rocking the Boat

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Sometimes it's okay to rock the boat! Science scholars manipulate wave properties using a fun interactive. Part of a larger playlist that dives into waves and sound, the lesson helps users work their way from apprentice to wizard by...
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CK-12 Foundation

Vector Multiplied by a Scalar: Boat Race

For Students 11th - Higher Ed Standards
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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Dragon Boat Teamwork Action Card

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students gather information about the Dragon Boats teams and races. They discuss what makes a winning combination for rowing teams and apply conclusions to their lives. They then problem solve fabrication of an animated dragon boat replica.
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Activity: Float a Clay Boat

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Written to introduce pupils to buoyancy, this activity has collaborative groups work to design a floatable clay boat. They first observe that a stick of clay sinks in water and then are given their own stick to reshape into a floating...
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Dragon Boats

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students create a model boat. In this art instructional activity, students identify what makes a boat float and use milk cartons to create their own boat.
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Basil Heatter, "The Long Night of the Little Boats"

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
“It was a miracle.” Basil Heatter’s “The Long Night of the Little Boats,” which details the miraculous rescue of the British army from the shores of Dunkirk in 1940, is featured in a series of exercises that ask class members to read,...
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Boating Safety

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Learners are introduced to the safety procedures to follow while boating. After taking a quiz, they complete open-ended questions about boating accidents in Illinois. They discuss as a class how those accidents could have been prevented.
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Ships 2: What Floats Your Boat?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students design, build, and test the specifications (water displacement and load line) for a model boat. The instructional activity focuses especially on integrating design principles with inquiry-based experimental skills.
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Propel a Toy Boat with Chemicals

For Teachers 5th - 8th
A simple cardboard or plastic boat is propelled across the surface of water when the surface tension is disrupted by adding detergent. Once youngsters see this in action, explain about the properties of water that make it possilbe:...

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