Lego Boat

Online Learning

Focus: Thinking Skills, Research Skills

Following on from our experiments with Sinking and Floating

Challenge: LEGO Brick Boat

  • Make a LEGO brick boat. 
  • Put your LEGO boat to the test in a tub of water.
  • Add 1 RMB coins , a few at a time to see how many your boat can hold.
  • Post a picture of your LEGO brick boat!
  • How many coins could your LEGO brick boat carry safely?

NOTE: This learning invitation will help children think about weight, engineering and design. You can give your child a certain number of Lego bricks for an added challenge.

Felix the Engineer:

Felix LOVES Lego and was very excited to try the Lego boat challenge. He took parts of a space shuttle and modified it for his boat. After that Simon and Felix tried a lego boat. It worked great! They had a lot of fun, especially with the water 🤭. Look carefully to see how many coins his space shuttle could hold safely.

Leming worked like a scientist, planning, designing and creating a boat that could stay afloat while carrying lots of coins. Leming then tested his boat to see if it works. 

Approaches to Learning (ATL’s)

  • think critically
  • plan an experiment
  • observe carefully
  • test ideas
  • gather information through experimentation
  • demonstrate persistence in tasks
  • use strategies to problem-solve

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