FLOAT YOUR BOAT
Books in this lesson:
Toy Boat
Author: Randall de Sève
Illustrator: Loren Long Publisher: Philomel Books Year: 2007 A toy boat gets separated from its owner and has an adventure on the high seas. |
Captain Kidd's Crew Experiments With Sinking and Floating
Author: Mark Weakland
Illustrator: Troy Cummings Publisher: Picture Window Books Year: 2012 Tells the story of a pirate and his crew experimenting with sinking and floating. Captain Kidd explains the forces of gravity and buoyancy and how they affect boats. |
FCS Provided Databases
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Kids Infobits has curated these
resources for Buoyancy. You can also do a specific search using “sink or float”. |
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The Magic School Bus: Ups and Downs
Run Time: 23 min 56 sec Ms. Frizzle's class learns about sinking and floating while searching for a monster in Walkerville Lake in this fun-filled episode of the Emmy Award-winning series. After hearing about a monster in the local lake, Wanda wants to be first to go under water to find it, but the bus refuses to sink. The kids eventually learn there's more than one way to make a bus sink, and in the process discover the real monster of Walkerville Lake. Access the Float Your Boat playlist on Safari Montage. |
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Nina and the Neurons In the Lab: Boat Float
Run Time: 14 min 39 sec Attempts to demonstrate why boats float, and places numerous objects in water to see if they float as well. The program follows Nina and the experimenters as they reveal that flotation is not directly related to weight. Additional resources are available in Discovery Education by searching “Sink or Float”. You will need a Discovery Education username and password to access these resources. See your METI for assistance if you need to set up an account. |
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Buoyancy
Run Time: 4 min 33 sec Why do anchors sink while boats float? In this BrainPOP movie, Tim and Moby dive into buoyancy, the special property of fluids that acts against gravity. See how much water is displaced when an unsuspecting robot is dropped into a pool. Learn how the buoyant force makes objects weigh less underwater. And discover how an object's density determines whether it sinks, floats, or hovers in a fluid. With all this knowledge, you'll surely be able to keep your head above water! |
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Sink or Float
Run Time: 3 min 12 sec What objects sink and what objects float? When an object sinks, it goes down with gravity, and when an object floats, it can stay up by itself. In this movie, you'll learn how some objects push water out of the way in order to float. You'll also explore how shape can help things float. Objects with hollow spaces, such as boats and canoes, can float even though they're big. Will a solid coin sink or float in a cup of water? Watch the movie to find out! |
Reach with STEM: Wind!
Catch the wind with a breezy little dragonfly as you learn all about wind. Watch competitive kite-flying, learn why the wind blows, then make your own windsock and chart real-life wind data.
Catch the wind with a breezy little dragonfly as you learn all about wind. Watch competitive kite-flying, learn why the wind blows, then make your own windsock and chart real-life wind data.
Crash Course Kids: Up, Up, & Away
Run Time: 3 min 36 sec
So... what makes the wind? You might be surprised to learn that it has to do with two of Earth's spheres; The Hydrosphere and the Geosphere. In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina takes us to the beach to chat about how the wind comes into being and why that's pretty darn awesome!
Run Time: 3 min 36 sec
So... what makes the wind? You might be surprised to learn that it has to do with two of Earth's spheres; The Hydrosphere and the Geosphere. In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina takes us to the beach to chat about how the wind comes into being and why that's pretty darn awesome!
