Who can make the most effective floater! Water science comes to a close!

This week we concluded water science.  First we experimented by predicting and testing the buoyancy of classroom objects. Did you know that an orange with a peel can float, but one without a peel cannot float? We also tried to make a ball of clay float by changing its shape.  This was an interesting, but messy experiment day!

Then, we tested all of the information we had learned about density, and how objects absorb or repel water to make our own floaters...the challenge- the create a floater from the objects in a basket that can hold the most weight in tiles!

Then we tested our creations...who's floater would prevail?  Which one would hold the most weight?

And here is the winning boat!  Way to go master engineer! Your floater held 50 tiles - WOW

Here is how we arranged our data!

It was so fun this year to jump right into science concepts...stay tuned for what comes next!