Middle schoolers design, build, and test the specifications (water displacement and load line) for a model boat. The lesson focuses especially on integrating design principles with inquiry-based experimental skills.

Students experiment with buoyancy as a force. In this buoyancy lesson plan, students access an assigned website to examine the sailing vessels that came to the New World. They work as teams to build boats out of aluminum foil to see...

Young scholars research inventors and inventions and their impacts. In this invention lesson, students research inventions and their affects in good and bad ways.