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Heavy Ice: Day Five

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students explore physics by conducting a class experiment. In this density instructional activity, students examine a list of items and discuss whether they will sink or float and then determine their density. Students examine the...
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Vegetable Olympic Swimming: Will it Float?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils inspect nutrition by conducting a science experiment in class. In this vegetable identification lesson, students examine a group of different veggies and predict whether they will sink or float in a tub of water. Pupils check...
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Floating Oranges

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students get into groups or watch one demonstration of the game. They observe an orange floating in the pool, pretending it is a little boy/girl wearing a life jacket. Next, they watch as the orange is peeled and thrown back in, with the...
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How Wet Can You Get?

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students visit a swimming pool and brainstorm different water sports and what benefits swimming has over other types of exercise. They then discuss buoyancy and water pressure and when how objects sink or float before playing a game of...
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The Good Microbes

For Students 3rd - 4th
Some microbes are beneficial for humans. This resource asks learners to identify beverages that contain healthy microbes. There are six beverages shown, and pupils must place a check mark next to the ones they think contain healthy...
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Feeding Frenzy

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Learners are divided into two teams in which its members are to gather as many objects in the pool as possible gaining points for different objects.
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How Do We Breathe?

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Young scholars study the structure of the lungs. In this lung structure lesson, students use lung models to study the structure of lungs and experiment to measure the amount of air in the lungs.