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Fan Boats Class Kit
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Helping to Support Teaching and Learning
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Class Size
Designed for use with up to 30 pupils, allowing each child to participate actively in the hands-on construction and testing of their fan boat. Ideal for large classroom settings.
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Free Resources
Includes a free 'how to' blog and video, providing teachers with step-by-step guidance to support effective delivery of the project and enhance classroom science activities.
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Knowledge Application
Helps children apply their knowledge of electricity, materials, and forces through hands-on activities.
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Comprehensive Support
Comes with comprehensive supporting literature, including lesson plans, PowerPoint, student worksheets, and more.
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Electricity Topic
Supports Science by teaching children to construct simple electrical circuits, aligning with the curriculum to identify basic components like cells, wires, bulbs, and switches.
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Fan Boats Class Kit
STEM kit for thirty pupils to design, build, test, and improve their own fan-driven model boat.
Overview
This kit helps children explore electricity, materials, and forces through a hands-on project with extensive teaching resources.
Students need practical and engaging ways to learn about science and DT concepts. This project addresses that by incorporating hands-on opportunities to build a simple series electrical circuit on a polystyrene foam base, enhancing their understanding of electricity, materials, and forces.
This kit clearly supports the topic of Electricity, allowing pupils to identify the basic parts of a circuit. It helps students understand and use electrical systems in products.
Contents include battery holders, plastic cotton reels, crocodile leads, plastic propellers, meagre motors, motor clips, battery snaps, and toggle switches. Each kit also includes a lesson plan, PowerPoint and child worksheets. Contents may vary.
Supports the National Curriculum
Science, Year 4, Electricity
Construct a simple series electrical circuit, identifying and naming its basic parts, including cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers.
Science, Year 5, Properties & Changes of Materials
Give reasons, based on evidence from comparative and fair tests, for the particular uses of everyday materials, including metals, wood and plastic.
Science, Year 5, Forces
Identify the effects of air resistance, water resistance and friction, that act between moving surfaces.
Product Information
Overview
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560 Stick on Eyes, 500G of Pine Cones, 10 Glitter Craft Tape, 50 Safeprint Sheets, 2000 Coloured Gem Stones, 30 AA Battery Holders, 100 Plastic Cotton Reels, 90 Crocodile Leads, 30 Plastic Propellers, 30 Meagre Motors, 30 Motor Clips, 50 Battery Snaps, 30 Toggle Switches
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Suitable for age 5 years and up
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Self-Assembly
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