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Buoyancy: Integrating Science and Literature

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Integrate science and literature by using the scientific method to test the veracity of the floating peach described in Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach. Clips from a Bill Nye: The Science Guy episode about buoyancy frontload...
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Sink or Float

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore floating and sinking and make predictions about whether certain objects are likely to sink or float. They read the story Who Sank the Boat? by Pamela Allen. Pupils loacate rhyming words and discuss the events of...
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Will It Sink or Float?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students perform experiments to see if items will sink or float. In this sink or float activity, students work in groups to make predictions, and record the results. After the experiments are complete students make a book of the results.
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Sink or Float Water Play Activity

For Teachers K
Students experiment with different objects to see if they sink or float. They can also choose certain colored items if more review is necessary.
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What is Density?

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students explore physical science by conducting an in-class experiment. In this density instructional activity, students define vocabulary terms dealing with physics and discuss their knowledge of density. Students conduct several "sink...
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Reading Adventure Pack: Oceans

For Parents 1st Standards
Flotsam by David Wiesner and The Magic School Bus on the Ocean Floor by Joanna Cole, illustrated by Bruce Degen, begin a reading adventure pack focusing on oceans. With story listening and thoughtful discussion, scholars complete several...
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Does Soap Float?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students form hypotheses and carry out an investigation in order to answer a central question: Does soap float? The focus of this instructional activity is on scientific inquiry, but it incorporates scientific topics such as sinking and...
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Heavy Ice: Day Five

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students explore physics by conducting a class experiment. For this density lesson, students examine a list of items and discuss whether they will sink or float and then determine their density. Students examine the objects over five...
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Sink or Float

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore water properties by conducting a class experiment. In this buoyancy instructional activity, students make predictions as to whether or not specific objects will sink or float in water. Students conduct the experiment and...
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Will the Pumpkin Sink or Float?

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Young scholars participate in a sink or float activity using pumpkins.
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Vegetable Olympic Swimming: Will it Float?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students inspect nutrition by conducting a science experiment in class. In this vegetable identification activity, students examine a group of different veggies and predict whether they will sink or float in a tub of water. Students...
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Grand Designs And Great Failures

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students extend their understanding of floating, sinking, density, and buoyancy and apply it to the design and testing of ships. students discover that most ships are constructed very similarly-whether they are schooners or destroyers.
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Ships 2: What Floats Your Boat?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars design, build, and test the specifications (water displacement and load line) for a model boat. The instructional activity focuses especially on integrating design principles with inquiry-based experimental skills.
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"Mr. Betts and Mr. Potts"

For Teachers 1st
First graders listen to the book "Mr. Betts and Mr. Potts" and examine the career of being a veterinarian. They categorize animals based on whether they could be house pets or not, develop a class pet graph, and list the various...
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Present Time and Past Time

For Students 4th - 5th
Assess your English language learners and their ability to distinguish between present tense and past tense. Thirty multiple-choice questions are provided here, and learners must choose the correct verb conjugation. 
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Present Time and Past Time

For Students 5th - 7th
Review past and present tense, and then give your class this activity to assess their current knowledge. There are 30 sentences to complete, and the sentences all deal with present and past tenses.
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Vocabulary Practice

For Students 3rd
Using context clues is a valuable skill in reading comprehension. Help kids to learn about homonyms with a multiple-choice learning exercise, in which they read two sentences and fill in the blanks with the word that would work in both.
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Buoyant Behavior

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Combine science and literature with this lesson on buoyancy. Read There's an Ant in Anthony by Bernard Most to examine words containing the letters a, n, and t. Then introduce your class to the word "buoyant." Demonstrate how an egg...
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Day Six: Floater What Ifs

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Students observe earth science by examining results from an experiment. In this buoyancy lesson, students practice floating different items in two different liquids and identify why certain objects will float and others sink. Students...
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Present Time and Past Time

For Students 5th - 6th
In this verb tenses instructional activity, students complete a 30 question multiple choice test on present time and past time verbs. Students choose the letter of the best possible answer from 4 choices.
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Present Time and Past Time

For Students 6th - 8th
In this present and past tense verbs instructional activity, students respond to 30 multiple choice questions that require them to use the appropriate verbs.
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Present Time and Past Time

For Students 5th - 8th
In this present and past tense worksheet, students practice their grammar skills as they respond to 30 multiple choice questions.
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Stretch the Sentence with Articles, Nouns and Pronouns

For Students 4th - 6th
In this stretch the sentence with articles, nouns and pronouns instructional activity, students interactively answer 10 multiple choice questions about sentence writing, then click to check their answers.
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Interactive Writing

For Teachers 1st
First graders write about vehicles that float using the interactive writing procedure.

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