Activity (Hands-On)Grades 4 - 5
Taking a Boat to the Amazon
In the continuing (hypothetical) storyline of the Lost in the Amazon unit, students apply the concepts they learned regarding mass, volume and density in the previous activities to design boats to get them out of the jungle.
Students design boats.Copyright 2008 Yves_guillou, openclipart https://openclipart.org/detail/10633/boat-by-yves_guillou-10633
This lesson and activity provides an opportunity for student teams to complete the engineering design process used by practicing engineers including constructing and testing their designs. See the related unit's Engineering Connection for further explanation.
Apply the concepts learned in Lesson 6, Activity 1, to design floating rafts/boats using new materials.