Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Does it Float or Sink?

We have been learning about and experimenting with things that float and sink.  We got out the modeling clay and thought we'd have some fun.  We found that a flat piece of clay sinks, however a curved piece of clay will float.  The kids each took a lump of clay and started working with it to create a boat.





Once we had the boats we put them in water and started adding little cubes to see whose boat would hold the most. 



I believe the most a boat held was 18 cubes. 
While a group was trying their boats the rest of us worked on word families 


and Lego's! 

Here is a little video clip of the boat experiment.
(I'm sorry it's sideways, it would not let me rotate it.)

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