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Beautiful boats

Topics Reception
This unit is part of Superheroes Superhero Vehicles

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Objectives

Early learning goals

  • Use everyday language to talk about size, weight, capacity, position, distance to compare quantities and objects and to solve problems.
  • Recognise, create and describe patterns.
  • Explore characteristics of everyday objects and shapes and use mathematical language to describe them.
  • Know about similarities and differences in relation to places, objects, materials.
  • Talk about the features of the immediate environment and how environments might vary from one another.
  • Sing songs.
  • Safely use and explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques, experimenting with design, form and function.
  • Use what thas been learnt about media and materials in original ways, thinking about uses and purposes.

Lesson Planning

Discover and learn about the huge range of beautiful boats, from supersized cruise ships to small rowing boats. Transport cargo and make rafts with your very own small world boats.

Children will:

  • Create a boat/raft that floats (or sinks!) out of a chosen material.
  • Describe features of their boat using everyday mathematical language related to size, position, weight .
  • Begin to explore displacement through play.

You Will Need

  • Things that go! book
  • Foil
  • Pennies
  • Water trays
  • Range of materials to make rafts - sticks/straws/corks/lollysticks/plastic bottles
  • String/wire/grass/masking tape
  • Junior hacksaws
  • Lego

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