Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Sesame Street: Sink or Float Educator Guide

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This is an educator's guide for a unit on things that sink or float. It includes lesson plans, experiments, and activities. Learners apply the scientific method as they investigate whether objects sink or float.
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Museum of Science

Museum of Science and Industry: Online Science: Design a Submarine

For Students 3rd - 9th
Become an engineer, and design a submarine that moves in the water like a real submarine. Try making it sink, float, and hover in the water.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Teaching Measurement: Literature and Manipulatives

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
The tradebook, Who Sank the Boat? by Pamela Allen, is an excellent tool in teaching measurement. Young scholars will engage in activities involving different types of measurement. In the story, five animal friends decide to take a boat...
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Bill Nye

Bill Nye: Eggs Speriment

For Students 1st - 5th
Try this at-home science experiment to learn if salt affects the way things float.
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Center of Science and Industry

Cosi Columbus: Buoyant Bubble [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn about density in this hands-on science experiment. Includes full list of materials, procedures, and scientific explanation of what makes an object float or sink. [PDF]