Vocabulary Builder Course 1

Lesson 29:

Activity Lesson Plans

Introduction
Students have learned vocabulary words associated with boats and the sea. Before students begin the activity, you might have them play "pictarades," a game in which classmates guess what word is portrayed in a student’s basic drawing.

Lesson Description
Students will identify six vocabulary words from the lesson by completing an Identification activity. To get directions, they can click on the How to Play button. After finishing the activity, they can check their work.

Instructional Objectives

Students will choose vocabulary words from a randomly ordered list and match them to their definitions.
Students will recall the meanings of words to make correct matches.

Student Web Activity Answers
shoal: a shallow place in a body of water
bow: the front part of a boat or ship
knot: a unit of speed used by boats that equals one nautical mile per hour
scuttle: to abandon
stern: the rear part of a boat or ship
leeward: on or moving to the direction or side toward which the wind is blowing

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