Boats 2.0

The 6th graders have been clambering to prove what they've learned since their last boat-building project, and today they got underway. Using what they learned from a previous boat as well as research on famous boats,the students were eager to apply the lessons learned from famous, and not so famous, sinkings. Plans were drawn, materials collected, and construction begun on boats that will hold pennies in calm and rough seas as well as fresh and salt water.

This year's Sustainability theme, Enough, lends itself to this project as students explore how many pennies are enough and how many will sink the boat under various condidtions. They will determine safe "load lines" for their boats just like the ships in Puget Sound. To inspire boat-think, the students listened to sea shanties while they worked.