'Who Sank the Boat?' proves a favourite captioned primary resource

Wed, 12/10/2011 - 12:57

As a reminder that cap that! resources are available for teachers to use every day of the school year, we’ve summed up a couple of our favourite primary school ones for you and your teaching colleagues.

The captioned video that received the most hits on the Internet throughout the cap that! campaign was Who Sank the Boat? Not only is the video a lovely depiction of the popular Pamela Allen book, but it was central to two resources for primary students.

For Foundation to Year 2 students, ‘Who Sank the Boat?’ is an English resource focussing on comprehension. It meets a number of Australian Curriculum learning objectives including:

• ACELT1577 - respond to texts, identifying favourite stories, authors and illustrators;
• ACELT1578 - identify some features of texts including events and characters and retell events from a text; and
• ACELY1650 - use comprehension strategies to understand and discuss texts listened to, viewed or read independently.

Proving how versatile a captioned video can be, Who Sank the Boat? is also used as part of a maths lesson plan for Years 3-6. In ‘Units of Measurement’ students get to splash about with water and marbles, experimenting with different weights in a foil boat to see how much it takes to sink their boats. Who knew that maths could be so much fun!

‘Units of Measurement’ meets learning objective ACMMG061 - measure, order and compare objects using familiar metric units of length, mass and capacity.

View all of our captioned activities and lesson plans.