Toy Boat Regatta
Overview
This honor is all about boats, physics, creativity, and hands-on building. You’ll learn why boats float and move, discover how important scientific principles work in real life, and then build and race your own miniature boats.
Requirements
1. Draw a schematic of a wind powered (sail) boat showing pertinent features and how they function. Features should include, but not be limited to a boom, hull, jib, keel, mainsail, mast, and rudder. How do features commonly removed from toy boats affect functionality?
2. Draw a plan for a rubber band-powered toy boat of a design of your choosing showing pertinent features that differ from a wind powered boat.
3. Be able to describe Archimedes’ Principle of Buoyancy and how this principle applies to all boats.
4. Be able to describe Newton’s First Law of Motion and how this principle applies to all boats.
5. Be able to describe Newton’s Third Law of Motion and how this principle applies to a wind-powered (sail) boat.
6. Be able to describe the difference between Potential Energy and Kinetic Energy. Discuss how and when a toy rubber band powered boat uses both types of energy.
7. Use recycled materials to make at least one toy wind powered (sail) boat and at least one toy rubber band powered boat. Each toy boat will be no wider than 4 inches (10 cm) and suitable for travel in a 6-inch (15 cm) wide lane of water.
8. Participate in an organized wind-powered (sail) boat race using a boat you have made to complete this honor.
9. Participate in an organized rubber band boat race using a boat you have made to complete this honor.
10. Identify and tell a short story of at least two instances in the Bible that describe floating boats/objects and two that defy Archimedes’ Principle of Buoyancy.
Answer key & resources
Master awards
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Investiture Achievement
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See also
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