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e-Club Toy Boat Regatta Honour

Toy Boat Regatta e-Honour

Category: Recreation

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REQUIREMENTS

  1. Draw a schematic of a wind powered (sail) boat showing pertinent features and how they function.  Features should include, but no 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 toy rubber band powered boat of a design of your choosing showing pertinent features that differ from a wind powered boat. 
  3. Be able to describe the Archimedes' Principle of Buoyancy and how this principal applies to all boats.
  4. Be able to describe Newton’s First Law of Motion and how this principal applies to all boats.
  5. Be able to describe Newton’s Third Law of Motion and how this principal 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 shall be no wider than four inches and suitable for travel in a five-inch roof gutter. 
  8. Participate in an organized wind powered (sail) boat race using a boat you have made to complete this honor (Item 7). 
  9. Participate in an organized rubber band boat race using a boat you have made to complete this honor (Item 7). 
  10. Identify and tell a short story of at least two instances in the Bible that describes floating boats/objects and two that defy Archimedes' Principle of Buoyancy.

e-HONOUR
We suggest that for the presentation elements of the honour you record a video of yourself and include it with your written assessment in your folder.  Your director will check all your work when your club resumes. If all is present and correct, your director can then decide if you may be awarded your honour.

Finished all your requirements?  Complete this form online, print off the confirmation and include in your club folder.

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