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Materials: rectangular Styrofoam, paper, cardboard, wooden skewers
Shapes: triangles for the sails, a rectangle for the hull.
I added no extra details.
Thoughts: I was thinking about making a good boat, something that is stable and can hold lots of cargo. Unfortunately, there were no sides on my boat and the cargo fell off.

Alex

Materials: Styrofoam meat tray, 2 tin foil boxes
Shapes
: box kinda shape and triangle sail
Details: There is a picture of a flower on the sail.
Thoughts: I was thinking that making a boat is cool and having a boat like a box is exciting.

Johanna

Materials: rocks, a plastic bottle, piece of stick, cloth, tape, staples and elastic
Shapes: triangluar sail, cylinder shaped hull.
Details: I used the peg to hold the sail the rocks are to hold the peg.
Thoughts: I was thinking about a sailboat.

Quinton

Materials: Styrofoam meat tray, 2 bigger tin foil trays
Shapes: rectangles for the hull
Details: no sails
Thoughts: I was thinking of a balance scale because it has a big top. I wanted my boat to be flat and to hold lots of pennies.

Justin

Materials: I used wood and nails
Shapes: I used a house shape and 2 rectangles at the back of the boat
Details: none
Thoughts: I saw the boat in a book. I put the rectangles at the back so that the wind could hit them and it would go up and hit the top of the sails. This would make the boat go forward.

Logan

Materials: tin foil tray, some lego, 2 plastic pop bottles, a straw and some tape
Shapes: two cylinders for the hulls and a rectangle for the base
Details: some Lego windows, some Lego men, a Lego engine and a propeller
Thoughts: I was thinking of a catamaran with a Lego engine and propeller. Catamarans have stability because of the two hulls.

Bruce

Materials: paper towel, tape, sticks, craft shapes, tinfoil meat tray, a Styrofoam meat tray, and popsicle sticks
Shapes: I made a square shape hull because I wanted it to go slow and be like a cruise ship.
Details: I added craft shapes on the sails.
Thoughts: I was thinking that I needed to make the hull wide to hold more pennies.

TJ

Materials: tin foil tray, Canadian flag, Lego man, ear plugs, tin foil and a marble
Shapes: rectangle for the flag, sided circle for the hull
Details: an anchor, Lego man and a Canadian flag
Thoughts: I didn't want a boat with a point at the front because the job of this ship is to hold cargo.

Cole

Materials: tinfoil, Styrofoam from a fish box, big toothpicks, paper, and duck tape
Shapes: I made a square shape with a point
Details: I added a little flames flag
Thoughts: I was thinking I wanted a point to make it go faster. The water goes to the sides of the boat.

Scott

 

Materials: straws, paper, popsicle sticks, tinfoil, rocks, and silly putty
Shapes: a square with a pointed side for the hull and square sails
Details: I made a front point so it can cut through water, silly putty made things stick and a rock so it can be balanced
Thoughts: I was thinking about the shape of the Endeavor

Dylan

Materials: styrofoam meat trays, coat hanger, piece of wood, wire
Shapes: oval, rectangles
Details: a large sail
Thoughts: I was thinking about needed a wide base for the boat to float.

Rachel

Materials: tin foil, string, popsicles and wood
Shapes: I used a triangle shape
Details: the string
Thoughts: My boat isn't just a rowing boat but it is a war boat

Mackenzie

Materials: paper, popsicle sticks, tinfoil, plastercine
Shapes: triangle sail
Details: flag
Thoughts: I was excited to learn about boats and I thought I would build one and bring it to class to share.

Scott N.

 

Materials: plasticine, paper and glow in the dark string, straw, milk carton, a coat hanger,
Shapes:
Details: a pom pom for an anchor, a small measuring cup for the look out
Thoughts: I was thinking the USS Lexington

Shyin

 

Materials: tin foil meat trays, two sticks and one plastic stick
Shapes: the hull was a house shape for a streamline
Details: a crows nest
Thoughts:I was thinking of a big sail boat.

Blake

 

Materials:styrofoam, popsicle sticks, and paper
Shapes:houselike shapes
Details: I tried to make a pointy shaped boat so that it could go fast. I put some sails on to steer the boat in a certain direction.
Thoughts: In my bathtub I tested my shapes. I blew the boats with a straw to see how fast it would go.

Kieran

Materials:styrofoam, popsicle sticks, and paper
Shapes:pentagon shaped boat
Details: The back sail is different as it is rounded at the top.
Thoughts: I tested this boat in my bathtub and blew it around with my straw. I learned that smaller boats have to have keels because it tipped over.

Kieran

Materials:styrofoam, popsicle sticks, and paper
Shapes:narrow housed shaped boat
Details: I tried putting a keel on the bottom but it fell off and it tipped over. My sails are square shaped and the back sail is made out of plastic.
Thoughts: I thought it would go really fast if the shape was narrow. I learnedthat smaller shaped boats could move faster because of the point in the front.

Kieran

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