STEM Canoe-building unit for Elementary

This lesson plan provides a fun and engaging way for students to learn about Hawaiian culture and traditional canoe building techniques while also enhancing their engineering and math skills.

By building and decorating their own canoe models, students will have the opportunity to exercise their creativity and problem-solving abilities.

Encouraging them to use accurate measurements and proportions will also help improve their math skills.

Sharing their finished models with the class will allow for a fun and interactive discussion about what they learned and how they applied their math skills to complete the project.

Overall, this lesson plan offers a great way to integrate multiple subject areas while also promoting Hawaiian cultural awareness and hands-on learning.

The book resource included has many side activities which cover ELA, Art and Social Studies standards. The book resource included is not made by me, but is a free resource that can be found on ulukau.org.