Clyde Waterfront Education

Boat-building at GalGael

Boat-building competition with BAE

This project will encourage pupils to apply their learning and teamwork skills in a competition on boat design. The challenge will be introduced and monitored by an industrial specialist, who will oversee the work in progress and assess achievements on completion of work.

Broad Outcomes of learning

• Subject knowledge about the design process and evaluation method gained and enhanced
• Improved soft skills
• Improved research skills
• To have a better appreciation of boat design

Relevance to curriculum

• CfE Technology

About this lesson/project idea

Theme Curricular area Age group
River use Technologies Upper Primary;
Lower Secondary
Lesson/project focus Interdisciplinary Learning Opportunities Cross cutting themes
Design;
build and test a model boat
Mathematics;
Science;
Social Studies;
Technologies
CfE;
AifL;
NEET

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River use support materials