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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Buoyancy Brainteasers: Buoyancy Question

For Students 3rd - 8th
This interactive brainteaser from the NOVA: "Voyage of Doom" Web site challenges you to figure out what causes an object to sink.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: What Floats Your Boat?

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Young scholars use modeling clay, a material that is denser than water and thus ordinarily sinks in water, to discover the principle of buoyancy. They begin by designing and building boats out of clay that will float in water, and then...
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PBS

Pbs: Buoyancy Basics

For Students 3rd - 8th
NOVA explores the basic principle of buoyancy. Also included at this site are some interesting brain-teasers related to the topic.

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