Sink or Float GPS S 8 CS 6
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Sink or Float?
GPS S 8 CS 6. Students will communicate scientific ideas and activities clearly. a. Write clear, step-by-step instructions for conducting scientific investigations, operating a piece of equipment, or following a procedure. b. Write for scientific purposes incorporating information from a circle, bar, or line graph, data tables, diagrams, and symbols. c. Organize scientific information in appropriate tables, charts, and graphs, and identify relationships they reveal.
Enduring Understanding/Question Some objects sink in water while others float Why do some objects sink and others float?
Square 1 From the Essential Question, write a hypothesis. Write down materials and procedures…. . . Materials: lemon, lime, red potato, sweet potato, avocado, peach, can of Coke Zero Procedures: measure the mass and volume of each item; calculate each object’s density; place each item in the container of water to see if the object sinks or floats
Square 2 Create a chart. Object Lemon Lime Red Potato Sweet Potato Avocado Peach Coke Zero Predict: sink Actual: Sink Mass or Float (g) Volume (m. L) Calculate Density (g/m. L)
Square 3 Were your predictions correct? Write an explanation as to why some of the objects float while others sank.
Square 4 What other things caused the objects to sink or float?
