Buoyancy and Boats
What is buoyancy?
Buoyancy
NASA Buoyancy Lab
Sink or Float Kidspiration 2.0 Activity
Floating and Sinking Test how long it takes a ball to sink in cylinders of different liquids in this simulation. This activity recreates an experiment. Pupils test the sinking time of a ball in measuring cylinders of familiar but different liquids.
Wonderville - Buoyancy Match? Select some items from the forest and compare them to see which ones are floaters and which are sinkers.
Wonderville - Fishing with Hayley. Go fishing with Hayley and use floats and sinkers to move the fishing net so that you can catch some fish
Keep Oceans Clean!
Save Our Oceans (SOS for Kids): What are you doing to the ocean?
Sea of Trash CBS video (jelly fish eating plastic, always watch videos on the internet with an adult)
Help Keep the River Clean (City of Edmonton)
Easy Ways Kids Can Conserve (YouTube video, always watch videos on the internet with an adult)
How much garbage are we talking about? A LOT! Here are some pictures of oceans and beaches-
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/steve-connor-why-plastic-is-the-scourge-of-sea-life-778017.html?action=Popup
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/03/100302-new-ocean-trash-garbage-patch/
Fish Game (fun way to learn some facts about water conservation)
So much to do with a blob – video of water on wax paper.
Thirstin’s Water Cycle (interactive)
Oil and water experiment Solids, liquids and gases The Water Cycle (text and some images)
Coloured Carnations Experiment Background Information – Exploring Liquids (lots of definitions)
Wriggle Worm (and absorption experiment)
Surface Tension ExperimentsDrops on Pennies ExperimentHey Kids! Our Water! Your House (water conservation)
Boat Simulation
Splash Zone - Build a boat- Learn about each part of a sailboat. Assemble a Sailboat!
Buoyancy
NASA Buoyancy Lab
Sink or Float Kidspiration 2.0 Activity
Floating and Sinking Test how long it takes a ball to sink in cylinders of different liquids in this simulation. This activity recreates an experiment. Pupils test the sinking time of a ball in measuring cylinders of familiar but different liquids.
Wonderville - Buoyancy Match? Select some items from the forest and compare them to see which ones are floaters and which are sinkers.
Wonderville - Fishing with Hayley. Go fishing with Hayley and use floats and sinkers to move the fishing net so that you can catch some fish
Keep Oceans Clean!
Save Our Oceans (SOS for Kids): What are you doing to the ocean?
Sea of Trash CBS video (jelly fish eating plastic, always watch videos on the internet with an adult)
Help Keep the River Clean (City of Edmonton)
Easy Ways Kids Can Conserve (YouTube video, always watch videos on the internet with an adult)
How much garbage are we talking about? A LOT! Here are some pictures of oceans and beaches-
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/steve-connor-why-plastic-is-the-scourge-of-sea-life-778017.html?action=Popup
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/03/100302-new-ocean-trash-garbage-patch/
Fish Game (fun way to learn some facts about water conservation)
So much to do with a blob – video of water on wax paper.
Thirstin’s Water Cycle (interactive)
Oil and water experiment Solids, liquids and gases The Water Cycle (text and some images)
Coloured Carnations Experiment Background Information – Exploring Liquids (lots of definitions)
Wriggle Worm (and absorption experiment)
Surface Tension ExperimentsDrops on Pennies ExperimentHey Kids! Our Water! Your House (water conservation)
Boat Simulation
Splash Zone - Build a boat- Learn about each part of a sailboat. Assemble a Sailboat!