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[Pirate Ship Race]
Appendix A: Pre/Post-Assessment
Appendix B: Pre/Post-Assessment Key
Appendix C: Key Vocabulary
Appendix D: Design Challenge
Appendix E: Decision Making Matrix
Appendix F: Engineering Design Process
Appendix G: Roles and Expectations
Appendix H: Ship Research Lab
Appendix I: Make Your Own Treasure Map
Appendix J: Will It Sink or Float?
Appendix K: Pirate Data Collection
Appendix L: Pirate Ship Challenge Reflection
Appendix M: Engineering Design Challenge Rubric
Appendix A: Pre/Post Assessment
Name ______
1. A treasure chest full of gold coins was found aboard Jeanne de Belleville’s pirate ship. Which statement is true?
A. The coins represent the volume of the chest.
B. The coins represent the surface area of the chest.
C. The coins represent the perimeter of the chest.
D. The coins represent the area of the chest.
2. Stu Burns, a famous pirate cook, found this can of soup in the galley (the kitchen on a ship). Which statement is true?
A. The label represents surface area and the perimeter is 300 mL.
B. The label represents surface area and the volume is 300 mL.
C. The label represents volume and the surface area is 300 mL.
D. The label represents volume and the perimeter is 300 mL.
3. Blackbeard and Captain Kidd each designed their own rectangular pirate flag for their pirate ship. What is true about these two flags?
A. They have the same area and the same perimeter.
B. They have different areas and the same perimeter.
C. They have the same area and different perimeters.
D. They have different areas and different perimeters.
4. Two carpenters on board want to replace the wooden boards on the hull of the ship. They need to know how many wooden boards they should pick up when they stop at the next port. What information do the carpenters need?
A. the area of the floor and the area covered by board
B. the volume of the hull and the volume of each board
C. the perimeter of the hull and the perimeter of each board
D. the height of the hull and the height of each board
5. The cook on board is choosing between two different soup pots. The cook wants to choose the container that holds the most soup. What measurement should the cook use to decide?
A. circumference
B. surface area
C. perimeter
D. volume
6. Lady Mary Killigrew is getting ready for a long voyage aboard her ship and is sending one of her crew members to get cereal. First she needs to determine how many boxes of cereal she can store in the shelf.
A. 12 boxes
B. 24 boxes
C. 48 boxes
D. 96 boxes
7. The Pirate’s Favorite Soup Company uses 150 square inches of material to make each 4500-milliliter soup can. What does the 150 square inches represent?
A. the height of the can
B. the volume of the can
C. the perimeter of the can
D. the surface area of the can
8. The stern of Blackbeard’s pirate ship shown below is formed by a rectangle and a semicircle. What is the approximate area of this part of the ship?
A. 228 square feet
B. 285 square feet
C. 341 square feet
D. 454 square feet
9. Black Bart is designing a new kitchen for the pirate ship. He drew a scale drawing of the kitchen as shown.
What will be the perimeter of Black Bart’s actual kitchen?
A. 1.6 feet
B. 2.5 feet
C. 18 feet
D. 40 feet
10. Pirate Howard Pyle needs to purchase more nails to finish his project. He wants all the nails to be the same length. What is the length of the nails he needs to purchase?
A. 1 3/4 inches
B. 1 7/8 inches
C. 1 15/16 inches
D. 2 1/16 inches
11. Rafael and Sammy were playing with soccer balls on a flat tile floor. Each boy rolled a soccer ball at the same time, and the balls hit, as shown below.
Which boy rolled his ball faster? How do you know? Explain.
12. The picture above shows the positions of two runners at one-second intervals as they move from left to right. For each runner, indicate whether the runner's speed seems to be constant, increasing, or decreasing.
Explain how you can tell this from the pictures.
13. Kelly slides a flat, toy boat across a pond. The boat slows down after several seconds. What causes the boat to slow down?
A. The thickness of the water
B. The temperature of the air above the water
C. The force of friction between the water and the boat
D. The gravitational force between the water and the boat
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Appendix B: Pre/Post Assessment Key
1. A. The coins represent the volume of the chest.
2. B. The label represents surface area and the volume is 300 mL.
3. B. They have different areas and the same perimeter.
4. A. the area of the floor and the area covered by board
5. D. volume
6. D. 96 boxes
7. B. the surface area of the can
8. B. 285 square feet
9. D. 40 feet
10. C. 1 15/16 inches
11. Rafael rolled his ball faster because it covered a greater number of tiles (6 tiles) during the same amount of time in which Sammy’s ball rolled 5 tiles.
12. Runner #1’s speed is constant because he/she covered the exact same distance per each equal time interval. However, Runner #2’s speed appears to be increasing over time because he/she covered an increased distance during each equal time interval. In fact, Runner #2, in a technical sense, is accelerating.
13. C. The force of friction between the water and the boat
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Appendix C: Key Vocabulary
Name ______
Technical Vocabulary / Pirate VocabularyArea: The number of square units that covers a shape or figure
Acceleration: the rate of change of velocity with respect to magnitude or direction, a change in velocity
Boom: horizontal poles for extending the feet of the sails
Bow: the forward end of the sailboat
Buoyancy: The power to float or rise in a fluid
Current: a large body of water moving in a certain direct
Depth: a dimension taken through an object or body of material, usually downward from an upper surface, horizontally inward from an outer surface, or from top to bottom of something regarded as one of several layers
Distance: The amount of space between two things, points or lines
Density: the mass of a substance per unit volume
Hull: the hollow, lowermost portion of a ship
Main Sail: the largest sail on the sailboat
Mass: a body of coherent matter
Mast: a structure rising above the hull to hold the sails
Port Side: The left-handed side of the sailboat
Rapid: a part of a river where the current runs very swiftly
Stability: continuance without change
Stern: the back or rear of the sailboat
Starboard Side: The right-handed side of the sailboat
Surface Area: For a three-dimensional figure, the sum of the areas of all the faces
Speed: a form of direction, rate of motion
Velocity: speed of an object, the distance divided by the amount / All hands Hoay: an order for “all hands on deck”
All Washed Up: A nautical term for shipwrecked, used today referring to someone with no hope
Ahoy! or Ahoy there! - The pirate's version of Aloha, it often means
"Hello!" or "Hi!" but can sometimes be used for "Goodbye."
Avast - Avast Ye! - From the Dutch term for 'hold fast' and means
"Stop and pay attention”.
Belay - To belay can mean either to tie something down tight and secure as with a belaying pin or to stop or ignore, as in, "Belay that last command."
Dungbie - The rear end.
Hornswaggle - To cheat or defraud, often of money or belongings,
Yosemite Sam knows a lot about it.
Jolly Roger - Believed to be from the French words for pretty red, the
Jolly Roger is the pirate's fabric calling card, often including a skull and crossbones. The Jolly Roger flag announces to your target that you are pirates, and that surrender is a good idea.
Parley - A parley is a conversation between opposing sides to discuss a halt to the fighting or related matters.
Shiver me timbers! - Akin to "Blow me down!", an expression of shock or disbelief, believed to come from the sound the ship made when 'shocked' by running aground or hit by a cannon blast.
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Appendix D: Design Challenge
Name ______
Pirate Ship Races
Each team will be researching, designing, and building a pirate ship from the materials given that can sail from one side of the baby pool to the other side of the baby pool in the shortest amount of time. Each ship will need to carry a certain amount of coins, representing people, food and treasure and parrots.
The pirate’s voyage will be a total of 7 days traveling through rapid waters with their sacred treasure. Each pirate will consume 3 meals a day and the ships parrot will consume 1. Construct the best possible ship for the pirates with the given constraints and materials.
Constraints:
• Travel a distance of the baby pool in the shortest amount of time
• Hold 3 people (1 quarter = 1 person)
• Hold 1 parrot (1 penny = 1 parrot)
• Hold their supplies (food for 7 days) (1 dime for each meal)
• Hold the given amount of treasure (10 nickels with a safety factor of 2)
• No human interference
• Ship must make it across the entire length of pool without taking on
water
1. In your notebook/journal, create your own individual design of the ship, explain what material was selected for both the sail and the ship, safety, availability of material, ease of construction, and confidence of design. Sketch as many as you can in the time given.
2. Get in your teams. Share your individual designs with the team. As you share, fill out the Decision Making Matrix.
3. Using the Decision Making Matrix as a guide, decide as a team what your final design will be. Create a sketch of the team’s final design.
4. After testing the ship in the tub of water, list and show any changes that were made to the team’s final product on the final sketch of the team’s design.
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Appendix E: Decision Making Matrix
Name ______
1. Look over the criteria (in the table below) that need to be considered before choosing a final design.
2. As each group member shares their ship designs, rate each design (including your own) on a scale of 0-3 for each criteria. Record your ratings in the table below. A rating of a 0 would mean that the ship does not meet the criteria. A rating of a 3 would mean that the ship meets or exceeds the criteria.
3. Calculate the score for each criterion (for each Team Member) by multiplying the weight by the rating you gave in step #2.
4. Calculate the total score for each Team Member by summing the score column.
5. Use your results to determine what your team’s final ship design will be.
Team Member #1 / Team Member #2 / Team Member #3 / Team Member #4Criteria / Weight / Rating / Score / Rating / Score / Rating / Score / Rating / Score
Safety / 10
Material –Sail / 7
Material – Ship / 9
Availability of materials / 8
Ease of Construction (time) / 9
Confidence of Design / 6
Total
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Appendix F: Engineering Design Process
Name ______
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Appendix G: Roles and Expectations
Name ______
Each team member will need to be assigned a role for the entire project or each day. This is up to your team to decide. You will need to record which team member was assigned which role for each day of the project. Different days may require different roles.
Lead Engineer – This person has an overall responsibility for ensuring the team is pursuing all project goals. This person needs to be a good listener, refine the problem statement to help others on the team focus, and make sure each team member is following the rules.
Scribe – This person needs to write down every idea clearly and where everyone in the group can see them.
Mechanical Engineer – This person will be responsible for leading the construction of the prototype. This will include delegating responsibilities to other team members to aid in the construction process.
Materials Engineer – This person will be in charge of gathering the materials needed for the prototype and project and maintaining a record of consumed materials.
Team Member / Assigned Role / Date(s) role was assignedContract
To aid the assurance of a successful team, it is important that you determine some “ground rules”. It is important that the ground rules are a set of guidelines that are developed and approved by the entire team. Listing attitudes and behaviors that can help the team be more effective will ensure team members perform to their full potential.
All team members agree to …
1.______
2.______
3.______
4.______
5.______
Team Member Signatures:
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Teacher Initials
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Appendix H: Ship Research Lab
Name ______
Directions: Answer each question in your journal/notebook.
1. What are some types of ships commonly used for trade and recreation, both past and present?