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Designing Your Company Boat
Selecting a boat design
- Share with your team, your answers to questions 4 – 8 from your Foil Boat handout.
- Record similar findings among your team here:
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- Come to agreement upon 2 – 3 boat designs based upon your findings above. (This includes type of materials used in construction.) Draw a diagram of each design and write a brief description of each.
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Create a prototype of each boat and test it. Record your data below.
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Did it float? |
Could it support any weight? If so, how much? |
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Modify your prototypes and try again.
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Did it float? |
Could it support any weight? If so, how much? |
How did this revised prototype fair against the original? |
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As a production team, select your best boat. Record below why this is the best boat. Think about what makes this boat design so special. What makes your boat hold more than others?
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Think about what your target age group is for your boat. How will you persuade them that this is the boat they want to have in their bathtub?
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