This hands-on workshop encourages students to design, build, test, and modify a variety of boats and water toys using their own creativity and imagination. Building water toys launches students into teamwork, sharing ideas and information, problem solving, and sharing in successes and laughing at utter failures. These disguised science lessons are a form of inventing and innovating guaranteed to stimulate young minds in basic forces and motion through their own creations using household recycled materials. The use of instruments and mathematics first became respectable in science through the practice of navigation. Students explore the significant steps behind the seafaring arts as they turned to science.
Lessons focus on navigation, cartography, and magnetism with practical activities and curriculum.
This inventive workshop provides students with hands on activities demonstrating basic concepts in Physics. Specially created lesson plans are designed to complement each of the 'Mechanics of Seafaring' exhibit modules aboard the Star of India. With the help of our ships' engineers, students get a real appreciation of the mechanics as well as the fundamentals of energy, heat and steam as they turn over the triple expansion engine. This workshop traces the invention of steam power through the industrial revolution. Students get the chance to power and race small steamboats that they take home.