Understanding Floating and Sinking

by: John Haysom and Michael Bowen

Predict, Observe, Explain (POE) sequences provide an important way to enhance students' understanding of important scientific ideas. In this chapter, the series of experiments help students understand floating and sinking. The experiments include concepts such as buoyancy and surface tension, density and floating, upward push on an object when it is lowered into a liquid (Newton’s third law of motion), Archimedes’s principle, and application of the principle of flotation.

Grade Levels

Elementary Middle School

Topics

Inquiry Instructional Materials Physical Science Physics

Details

Type Book ChapterPub Date 10/1/2010Stock # PB281X_10

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