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Build a Pirate Ship STEM Challenge - Upper Years

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Curriculum: TEKS

Grade: 4 - 5

A STEM challenge suitable for students in the upper years.

Use this STEM challenge to encourage critical thinking and problem-solving in a design technology context.

Students design and construct a pirate ship that can remain afloat while holding as many coins as possible. The boat that can hold the most coins wins! The task enables students to use a variety of materials in order to solve the design challenge.

The teaching resource contains a task card that outlines the challenge and a worksheet for recording and reflecting upon the design process.

Full color, low color, and black and white versions are available.

Curriculum

Science 4.2(A)

Plan and implement descriptive investigations, including asking well defined questions, making inferences, and selecting and using appropriate equipment or technology to answer his/her questions;
Science 4.5(A)

Measure, compare, and contrast physical properties of matter, including mass, volume, states (solid, liquid, gas), temperature, magnetism, and the ability to sink or float; and
Science 5.2(A)

Describe, plan, and implement simple experimental investigations testing one variable;
Science 5.2(B)

Ask well defined questions, formulate testable hypotheses, and select and use appropriate equipment and technology;
Science 5.5(A)

Classify matter based on measurable, testable, and observable physical properties, including mass, magnetism, physical state (solid, liquid, and gas), relative density (sinking and floating using water as a reference point), solubility in wa...

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