Sailing STEM Activity Wind Powered Sailboat Regatta Sink or Float Experiment
Sailing STEM Activity Wind Powered Sailboat Regatta Sink or Float Experiment
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Integrate STEM in your classroom with a sailboat racing STEM activity! Perfect for the Paris Summer Olympics 2024!
Get your students pumped up for Summer Games 2024 and STEM! Design and build a sailboat.
Learn the history of the Summer Olympics and the sport of sailboat racing. Have your own classroom Sailboat Regatta! Designed for 3rd-5th grade students, but can be used for all elementary classrooms with small adjustments.
Amazing resource for STEM club, STEM teachers, elementary librarians, parents who love hands-on learning, and elementary teachers who want to create a hands-on educational environment in their classroom!
Aligns with NGSS (Next Generation Science Standards).
Includes:
- Example Pictures
- Timeline of the history of The Summer Olympic Games
- Reading Passage
- Quiz and Answer Key
- STEM Journal Cover
- Engineering Design Process Poster
- Student Instructions
- STEM Lesson
- Vocabulary Words
- Writing Extension
- NGSS Standards for Activity
- TEKS
Suggested Materials:
- small cups
- cardboard
- aluminum foil
- paper
- wooden dowels or popsicle sticks
- tape and/or hot glue
- inflatable pool, kiddie pool, rain gutter, and something to hold water for the race (we used an inflatable buffet ice tray)
- handheld fans (or use your breath for power