Class regatta

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

Objectives

History

  • Understand historical concepts such as continuity and change.
  • Learn about changes in living memory.
  • Identify similarities and differences between ways of life in different periods.

Design and Technology

  • Name and locate the world’s seven continents.
  • Use world maps, atlases and globes to identify continents.

Lesson Planning

Compare regattas from the modern day and the past; Design and make sandwiches for a class regatta; Test boats and award prizes.

Teaching Outcomes
To write a clue card to accompany their paintings.
To design and make sandwiches; To test out boats against a design brief

Children will:

  • Explore the history of regattas through images and film.
  • Design and make sandwiches from a range of ingredients.
  • Test their boats against a design brief.

You Will Need

  • Model boats made in session 8
  • Small cargo e.g. a rubber
  • Trays of water
  • 3 small prizes
  • Range of sandwich ingredients
  • Plates and plastic knives