Titanic Life Jacket STEM Challenge

This is a ready to use STEM lesson featuring the history of the Titanic.

This lesson teaches children about the history of the Titanic and what happened that cold night in April! It also looks into the issues the boat faced with not having enough life jackets or lifeboats. With this challenge, we will focus on the water temperature and also look at hypothermia. After learning about both of these topics, students will be asked to engineer a life jacket that is able to keep the action figure above the water and also try to help keep body heat in (keep the body warm while in the frigid water) I have my students for 45 minutes at a time.

This lesson gives you the challenge, suggested materials, and guides you through the process of getting kids ready to complete the challenge. This one is set-up to be used with 3rd through 5th grade. You could possibly extend it into a two or three week lesson activity. This does include a planning sheet. Please feel free to share any feedback. I have more resources if you feel this one was helpful! Thank you so much for taking the time to look at my resources!

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