STEAM week_Spring 2023
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How long can it float?
The challenge<br />
For <strong>STEAM</strong> <strong>week</strong> in <strong>Spring</strong> <strong>2023</strong>, the<br />
challenge was for pupils to build a boat<br />
that will hold the most weight before it<br />
sinks. An additional boat was chosen to go<br />
through to be judged under the category of<br />
“most creative design.”
The Regatta<br />
Each classroom held its own launch to find the boat that would hold<br />
the most weight to go through to the grand final at the end of <strong>STEAM</strong> <strong>week</strong>.
What will your boat be made of?<br />
A. Cardboard<br />
B. Lego<br />
C. Water bottles<br />
D. Egg carton<br />
E. Tin foil<br />
F. Plastic tub<br />
B.<br />
A.<br />
D.<br />
C.<br />
E.<br />
F.
Click on screen to see the boat display
Early Years Foundation Stage<br />
In the classrooms, over the course of the <strong>week</strong>,<br />
the teaching and learning covered a wide variety<br />
of water-based topics, including in Reception<br />
where children undertook floating and sinking<br />
experiments in Science with paper boats and<br />
drew a sailboat scene in Art.
Year 1<br />
In Science, the children investigated how to clean<br />
up an ocean oil spill and learnt that lots of<br />
different animals are affected by such pollution<br />
and it can be very damaging to the environment.<br />
In DT, they designed and made tin foil boats,<br />
then put coins in them to see how much they could<br />
take before it sank. Whilst in Maths, pupils<br />
completed floating fact families.
Year 2<br />
In Year 2, pupils also built tin foil<br />
boats to test how much weight they<br />
could hold and painted watercolour<br />
scenes in their Art lesson.
Year 3
Year 4<br />
Pupils in Year 4 built tin foil boats in Science and<br />
researched The Titanic as part of their History lesson<br />
(including a timeline and a cross section of the ship).
Year 5<br />
Children explored further the concept of<br />
buoyancy and experimented with various<br />
boat designs using marbles as cargo.
Year 6<br />
Pupils researched where the major shipping routes of the world<br />
were located. They spotted that the majority of these waterways<br />
were very narrow and were fascinated to learn<br />
about the 400m long ‘Ever Given’ cargo ship which caused<br />
chaos in 2021 when it completely blocked the Suez Canal.
Boats that held the most weight<br />
These four boats were still floating after all of the<br />
available weigh (11.8kg) was loaded on board<br />
Ahmad<br />
(Year 2)<br />
Liam (Year 4)
Muhammad (Year 4)<br />
Leo (Year 6)
Creative design winners<br />
Lilly (Year 3) Odin (Year 2)
Tammy (Year 5)<br />
James (Year 6)
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