Summary: The Richest Boat

INTASC standard five focuses on the application of content and it explains that the teacher fully understands and knows how to connect the content concepts to make learning relevant, engage learners in critical thinking, creativity, and in applying content knowledge to real world problem. My artifact is a picture of an aluminum foil boat (The Richest Boat) that we had to create on Dr. Narayan’s class EDEE 4330. At first we were asked to create a boat with a piece of white paper, and we had to tape it on the board. Then we had to create the richest boat with an eight by eight aluminum foil and our boat had to hold as many pennies as possible while floating on water. Dr. Narayan provides us with the material such as aluminum foil, pennies, a
plastic container, a ruler, scissors, and water. The first boat, we build it individually, and mine boat hold twenty pennies. The second boat we build it as a team, and it hold about 70 pennies. The third boat we built it with more care and with equal length on each side and the end result was surprising because the boat hold about 170 pennies; unfortunately we did not reach the 200 pennies target. Through this activity we experienced science concepts such as buoyancy, force, sink, float, and density of water. As well, we were engage in critical thinking, and we work together to build a boat that can hold as many pennies as possible. It is very important that teachers engage students in this kind of activities because it gives students the opportunity to think critically, use their creativity and work as a team.