This lesson involves the children working in groups (approx 7),
in a real-life context as a shipbuilding company, to design and
create a model vehicle as a public service to transport people
along the Clyde. The children will have to consider which materials
and design would allow a vehicle to float on water.
Broad Outcomes of learning
• Application of knowledge in a real situation of
stages in boat designs
• Enterprising skills and attitudes developed
through making oral presentations of boat designs to whole class
(CfE); decision making; working as part of a team
• Develop employability skills - understanding of
business processes, working to a timescale and following a design
brief
• Learners have developed enterprising skills
identified as 4 capacities of CfE
Relevance to curriculum
• Supports Café Technology
• Relevance of how science and technology directly
affect the design and construction of river boat cruisers
This lesson involves the children working in groups (approx 7),
in a real-life context as a shipbuilding company, to design and
create a model vehicle as a public service to transport people
along the Clyde. The children will have to consider which materials
and design would allow a vehicle to float on water.
Broad Outcomes of learning
- Application of knowledge in a real situation of stages in boat
designs
- Enterprising skills and attitudes developed through making oral
presentations of boat designs to whole class (CfE); decision
making; working as part of a team
- Develop employability skills - understanding of business
processes, working to a timescale and following a design brief
- Learners have developed enterprising skills identified as 4
capacities of CfE
Relevance to curriculum
- Supports Café Technology
- Relevance of how science and technology directly affect the
design and construction of river boat cruisers