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S8CS6. 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.
Some objects sink in water while others float
Why do some objects sink and others float?
From the Essential Question, write a hypothesis.
Write down materials and procedures…...Materials: lemon, lime, red potato, sweet
potato, avocado, peach, can of Coke, 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
Create a chart.Object Predict:
sink or Float
Actual: Sink or Float
Mass(g)
Volume (mL)
Calculate Density(g/mL)
Lemon
Lime
Red Potato
Sweet Potato
Avocado
Peach
Coke
Coke Zero
Were your predictions correct? Write an explanation as to why some of the objects float while others sank.
What other things caused the objects to sink or float?