The STEM & PSAs of Boating Safety
What? You have one of those persnickety teachers that don’t want fun-on-the-water lessons in their classroom and only insist on STEM (Science-Technology-Engineering-Math) related lessons? Well then strap on your PFDs because here’s an exclusive collection of feature videos, classroom videos and related lessons that can float the STEM boat in your classroom.
Before exploring these STEM videos with lessons below, fire up your boating safety brain with this hilarious feature video and test your RBSIQ (recreational boating safety IQ) against this wacky trio of game show contestants. Yes, learning about boating safety can be this much fun!
Plus, here’s a STEM primer video, Newton Goes Boating, that has a boatload of science, technology, engineering and math that decodes boating safety physics and Newton’s Laws of Motion. It even includes lessons from Archimedes of Syracuse (280 to c. 220 BCE) who was an ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, and inventor… of buoyancy!
S.T.E.M. Lessons
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Science Classroom Video
Explore the science of how early and present-day explorers navigate using the earth’s magnetic fields and the mathematical deviation between true or geographic north.
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Technology Classroom Video
Discover the latest in advanced boating safety technology and how to use it.
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Engineering Classroom Video
Decode the Engineering of how your PFD uses Archimedes principle of buoyancy
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Math Classroom Video
Crucial lessons to calculating life-saving ROIs (return on investment) in the lesson below.
For bonus STEM materials – Perform a Goggle Search on “Science of Boating Safety”
Bonus PSAs
Feel free to explore, download, and use these “open-source” 30-second PSAs in your boating safety videos, television shows and websites.