Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Critical and creative thinking Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Personal and social capability
Australian
Curriculum Cross Curriculum Priorities: Sustainability
Priority
Cooperative
Learning Activity
Introduction
"Seabin was founded by two Australian surfers, Andrew Turton and Pete
Ceglinski, supported by a seed investment by Australian marine technology
development company Shark Mitigation Systems, now renamed and an ASX-listed
company, Smart Marine Systems.
Turton is an Australian boat builder and sailor who conceived the Seabin
concept after numerous sailing trips around the world and witnessing the
amount of pollution in marinas." (Source:
Business Insider)
"The Seabin, created by
Australians Andrew Turton and Pete Ceglinski, is an automated garbage bin
that sits in the water of marinas, private pontoons, inland waterways,
residential lakes, harbors, water ways, ports and yacht clubs. The Seabin
floats on the water's surface and suck water into it, also pulling in any
garbage and debris, the garbage is captured in a bag made of natural fiber,
and the water is pulled into a pump located on the shore, or the dock, which
separates out any oil in the water, and then pumps the clean water back into
the ocean." (Source: What's Creative)
Seabin is no longer in production!
[March 2023] however the following activity is still relevant.
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Numeracy
Teacher
Student teams develop research and
reporting skills as they gather information about a specific type of
ship and report it to the class. The class, as a whole, compares and
contrasts the different ships, noting similarities and differences
among ships from different historical eras and ships built for
different purposes. Students use the measurements of the ships (in
terms of size, weight, and water displacement) for comparison as
well as the ships’ features and overall design. Students gain an
appreciation that, although ships today are larger and built with
different materials, the basic designs and purposes of ships are
similar to those of earlier centuries.
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Numeracy
Teacher
Teaches students about load lines and cargo. Using the
information from the ship reports they developed in Ships 1, they
note that different types of ships can carry different amounts of
cargo. They learn that overloading ships has, historically, been a
dangerous practice.
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Intercultural Understanding
Teacher
Students apply what they have learned to develop an
explanation of why two real-life ships sank (the British Titanic and
the Swedish Vasa). This application of knowledge to real-life
situations demonstrates to students that even good designs can fail
(the Titanic) and that the solution to one problem often leads to
another (the Vasa). It also demonstrates how cultural and contextual
conditions can affect both engineering plans and their
implementation.
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:Critical and creative thinking
Teacher
Students will design and
construct a boat out of aluminum foil and a few other simple
materials. The boats will then be tested by floating them in a pool
or sink of water, and then adding mass until they sink. While
students may not be able to articulate it, they will intuitively
begin to understand the scientific laws required for the design of
the boat, i.e. buoyancy and Archimedes Principle. They will also
explore the shapes of boats and construction techniques that may
work for the boats.
Australian
Curriculum General Capability: Ethical Understanding
Teacher
An online activity - a Mock Trial.
This activity puts the owners "The White Star" Line
on trial for the death of one of the people who died on the Titanic.
A US Trial and Law but still provides students
with an overview of the event. Can be a 45 minute lesson or a week
long one - lesson planning provided.
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Personal and social capability
Teacher
Students build a boat that will float and hold
as many pennies [10 cents] as possible, then discuss the process of
building the boat and relate the experience to experiences they
encounter in life.
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Critical and creative thinking
Did You Know?
Australia won the 1983 Americas' Cup
and out of this event came the Boxing Kangaroo icon!
The Boxing Kangaroo at the athletes village in 2010 at the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games.
This icon was designed as the mascot for the Australia II challenge
in the 1983 America's Cup.
The Australian Olympic Committee bought the rights to the image from
Alan Bond,
who licensed it after flying it from his America's Cup-winning yacht
in 1983.
"The 1983 America's Cup was the occasion of the first winning
challenge to the New York Yacht Club, which had successfully
defended the cup over a period of 132 years. An Australian syndicate
representing the Royal Perth Yacht Club fielded the Australia II,
skippered by John Bertrand against defender Liberty, skippered by
Dennis Conner, won the match races to win the America's Cup, ending
the longest winning streak in sporting history and ending U.S.
domination of the racing series." (Source: Wikipedia)