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Science Buddies: Design Your Own Milk Carton Boat ActivityScience Buddies: Design Your Own Milk Carton Boat Activity
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Science Buddies
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9th - 10th
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Lexile Measures
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Activity

Science Buddies: Design Your Own Milk Carton Boat

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Design different hull designs for boats from milk cartons and experiment with which hull will glide the fastest, be most maneuverable, and which will support the most weight. The Science Buddies project ideas are set up consistently beginning with an abstract, objective, and introduction, followed by a section on terms, concepts, and questions, bibliography, list of materials and equipment, experimental procedure, suggestions on how to vary the experiment, plus a focus on the sort of careers this experiment might relate to.

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boats, engineering design

Additional Tags

boat design, boat hull, engineering design process, hull design, hydrodynamics, milk cartons, model boats, dragonflytv, science buddies, science fair project

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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