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How are boats powered?

Topics Reception/Year 1
This unit is part of Oceans and Seas Boats and Ships

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Objectives

Design and Technology

  • Explore and use mechanisms in their products.
  • Design purposeful, functional, appealing products based on design criteria.
  • Select from and use a wide range of materials and components according to their characteristics.
  • Evaluate their ideas and products against design criteria.

Maths

  • Construct simple pictograms.
  • Answer simple questions by counting the number of objects in each category and sorting the categories by quantity.
  • Ask and answer questions about totalling and comparing categorical data.

Lesson Planning

Explore how boats move through water; Construct simple boats with a range of power sources.

Teaching Outcomes
 To construct simple paddle-, propeller- and sail-boats.
To create a pictogram of boat power sources and analyse the data.

Children will:

  • Explore the different ways boats move through water.
  • Construct simple paddle-, propeller- and sail-boats.
  • Create a pictogram showing boat power sources.

Provided Resources

  • How do they move?
  • Pictogram images
  • Pictogram grid

You Will Need

  • A3 paper
  • Tubs of water
  • For balloon boats: balloons, pens, bendy straws, thin rubber bands, tape, styrofoam containers
  • For rubber-band boats: rubber bands, markers, rulers, styrofoam or thick card and electrical tape
  • For cork sailboats: corks, coloured paper, toothpicks, beads, small screwdriver, cutting mat.

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