Sinking or Floating

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Sinking or Floating?

• Brittany Burnham

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Objectives

• Students will be able to predict if eleven
  objects will sink or float.
• Students will participate in an experiment.
• Students will be able to compare their
  predictions to the results of the experiment.
• Students will be able to define density.

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Review

• We will review density and what happens when to
  an object when it is place in the water.

Focus

• Groups will conduct an experiment about density.

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Does it sink or float?

• What about a piece of lead?
• Why?
• What about a piece of cork?
• Why?
• What about a ice cube?
• Why?

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Icebergs!
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Experiment time!