Saturday STEM Challenge: Raft Building

For New Hampshire’s April school vacation week, when none of us is actually going anywhere, we decided to focus on things we could do if we did have some sort of wild vacation adventure and ended up on a deserted island.

We’ve been stuck on this deserted island all week and have been learning lots of survival skills. We learned how to make a compass, how to use the sun to cook food and make drinkable water, how to use our senses to get a better idea of our surroundings, and how to use the stars for navigation. But now, we’ve had enough of island living and we want to get back home. To get off this island, we’ll need to build a raft.