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KS2 Exploring Boats Activities

Name: KS2 Exploring Boats Activities
Brand: Hands-On Education
SKU: KS2 Exploring Boats
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Perfect for Key Stage 2 learners, this engaging Design and Technology resource combines science, history, and engineering as children explore buoyancy, materials, and boat design through practical investigations and creative challenges. Ideal for cross-curricular topic work that brings learning to life.

Included Resources +

This pack includes five activity sheets with accompanying lesson plans exploring buoyancy, materials, and boat design through cross-curricular science, history, and engineering investigations.

Key Details +

• Year Group: KS2 (ages 7–11)
• Key Stage: KS2
• Subject: Design Technology, Science & History
• Resource Type: Activity Sheets + Lesson Plans
• Format: Instant PDF Download
• Number of Activities: 5

Curriculum Alignment +

Aligned to the KS2 Design & Technology and Science National Curriculum. Covers designing and making purposeful products, understanding materials and their properties, and exploring forces including upthrust and air pressure — using the history of the Mary Rose as a real-world context.

Teaching Tips +

The Balloon Powered Boat is the standout activity — run it as a timed race for maximum engagement. The design-test-improve cycle works best made explicit throughout. The Mary Rose historical context works well as a cross-curricular history link. Ideal as a one-week STEM topic.

Find more resources for this topic on the Exploring Boats topic page.

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