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STEM Challenge Unsinkable Boat Float Inquiry Activity
STEM CHALLENGE: Students will absolutely love this hands-on, engaging, inquiry activity! Challenge your students to engage in the engineering & design process as they work as a team to keep a self-designed boat afloat while carrying freight (pennies)! This activity is very versatile and can easily be used as part of a larger unit or as a stand-alone team building or maker space activity. > > Use as Maker Space: Challenge your students to create by using teamwork to solve problems >
6th - 9th
Engineering, Science
NGSS
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
STEM Investigation: How do boats float? Boat Challenge!!
STEM Challenge: Can you design an aluminum foil boat that will float and hold weight of multiple pennies?
This STEM challenge is a class favorite! It is also the first team activity we do in science, which is awesome because this challenge allows students to make multiple attempts with their design! A hands-on experience that allows students to TRY AGAIN!
This lesson requires students to make observations prior to their building process, a Wonderopolis investigation on how boats float, brains
2nd - 4th
Engineering, Graphing, Science
The Mayflower Design Boat Float STEM Challenge THANKSGIVING
THANKSGIVING THEMED STEM CHALLENGE: Students will absolutely love this hands-on, engaging, inquiry activity! Challenge your students to engage in the engineering & design process as they work as a team to keep a self-designed Mayflower boat afloat while carrying pilgrims (pennies)! This activity is very versatile and can easily be used as part of a larger unit or as a stand-alone team building or maker space activity. >>Use as Maker Space: Challenge your students to create by using teamw
6th - 9th
Engineering, Science
NGSS
MS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-4
+4
Viewing Activity for video: 'Making Macy's Parade Balloons'
This is a viewing activity for middle school students to complete as they watch the video titled, ' How Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade Balloons Are Made'. If your school has a paid subscription to Scholastic Storyworks Magazines (like mine does), you can simply use your teacher account to access it. If not, Scholastic has made the video available on YouTube for free. This is the YouTube link to the video.
6th - 8th
Engineering, Visual Arts, Vocabulary
Float On Water E.D.P.
As students take on the role of an engineer, they must design and create something that will float on water and will be able to hold pennies. We would usually brainstorm as a class what materials are available to use and what they could potentially bring in from home. When testing, I've used blocks, pennies or weights to measure strength!
2nd - 5th
Engineering, General Science, Science
NGSS
3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Float Your Boat Lab
This lab may be used as a discovery lab (to use before the concept is taught) or as a lab to reinforce teaching. Either way... the kids love this lab and will want to do it over and over in attempts to create the ‘perfect’ boat. The lab and the science is so basic to understanding buoyancy and floating/ sinking that it becomes a reference point for future lessons.
6th - 8th
Engineering, Physical Science, Science
What Floats Your Boat?
In this lesson, students will be introduced to the parts of a ship and their correct names. Students will begin to understand the scientific principle of buoyancy and how the different parts of the ship are necessary to make the ship float. In the end, students will use the information obtained to create a ship out of aluminum foil that is capable of floating and carrying a “cargo.”
K - 5th
Engineering, Environment, Science
NGSS
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-PS2-2
+1
Sanitation Engineers: Creating a Recycling Center
Have you explored materials that sink and float?
Have you explored materials that are magnetic?
Students can use their knowledge of properties of materials to design and create a recycling center to separate recyclables.
These printables will help students use the engineering design process to engineer a recycling center.
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K - 2nd
Engineering, Physical Science
PhET Simulation Online Labs - Six Buoyancy Labs
This resource contains six separate online labs utilizing the Buoyancy simulation from PhET Interactive Simulations. Buoyancy Lab No. 1 - Floating, Sinking & the Buoyant Force Buoyancy Lab No. 2 - Forces and Buoyancy Buoyancy Lab No. 3 - Percent Submerged Buoyancy Lab No. 4 - What is the Buoyant Force? Buoyancy Lab No. 5 - Shapes Buoyancy Lab No. 6 - Applications These resources give students an opportunity to visually and interactively investigate many aspects of buoyancy such as floating and
8th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Engineering, Physical Science, Physics
Also included in: Growing Bundle: PhET Simulation Online Physics Labs
Demystifying the Cloud: How Digital Data Travels Interactive Lesson
💡 Demystify the Cloud for your students once and for all! 💡 Are you tired of explaining that the 'cloud' isn't just magic floating in the sky? Most students have grown up using digital storage without ever understanding the massive physical infrastructure that makes their favorite apps work. This complete 4-page lesson bridges the gap between digital convenience and physical reality, giving your students a clear, concrete understanding of how data travels across the globe. ⭐ Why this re
6th - 9th
Engineering, For All Subjects, General Science
Space Careers Coloring Pages for Elementary STEM Career Day
Space Careers Coloring Pages Bundle includes 14 printable PDF sets for grades K-5, with 73 pages covering Astronaut in a Space Suit, Astronaut Floating in Space, Astronaut on the Moon, Astronaut with a Rocket, Astronaut Inside a Space Station. Space Careers Coloring Pages Bundle brings together 14 printable PDF coloring page sets with 73 total pages. Topics include Astronaut in a Space Suit, Astronaut Floating in Space, Astronaut on the Moon, Astronaut with a Rocket, Astronaut Inside a Space Sta
K - 5th
Coloring Pages, Engineering, General Science
Submarine Engineering Challenge — Buoyancy & Ballast Tank Design
Title: 🌊 Density Exploration Lab — Build a Submarine Summary: In this hands-on engineering lab, students design and test a simple submarine to explore how density and buoyancy control floating and sinking. Using plastic cups, a balloon, tubing, and a syringe, teams adjust the submarine’s density by inflating or deflating the balloon, mimicking how real submarines use ballast tanks. Students observe how adding or removing air affects displacement and buoyant force, record results, and draw thei
5th - 10th
Engineering, Physical Science
Also included in: Scientific Method and Measurement Skill Labs Bundle
Aluminum Foil Boat Engineering Challenge — Density & Displacement
Title: Engineering Challenge — Aluminum Foil Boat Design Summary: In this hands-on engineering lab, students design and test aluminum foil boats to explore how density, buoyancy, and displacement determine whether objects float or sink. Each team builds two boat designs, predicts how many pennies each will hold, tests their designs, and records results. Students analyze how shape changes affect water displacement and buoyant force, then improve their second design based on observations. The lab
4th - 9th
Engineering, Physical Science
Also included in: Scientific Method and Measurement Skill Labs Bundle
Density and Buoyancy Engineering STEM Lab
Engage your students with this hands-on Density & Buoyancy Engineering STEM Lab where they design, test, and redesign a high-capacity foil boat to determine how mass, shape, and displacement affect whether objects sink or float. In this blended science investigation + engineering challenge, students explore how buoyant force allows large objects to float even when made of dense materials. Using identical sheets of aluminum foil, students construct a boat, test how many pennies it can hold befo
6th - 8th
Engineering, Physical Science, Physics
NGSS
MS-ETS1-2
, MS-ETS1-4
, MS-ETS1-1
+1
Balloons Over Broadway - STEM Activity Planning Sheet
Use this planning sheet after reading the book, Balloons Over Broadway. This is a great planning sheet before completing the STEM activity where students are given materials and they create their own balloons for the Macy's Day Parade.
2nd - 5th
Engineering, Science
Human Biology in Space| Life Support and Adaptation | STEM Middle School & CLIL
What happens to your body when you leave Earth?In this unforgettable STEM module, learners fly in the boots of a Chief Astronaut to explore the incredible, weird, and sometimes gross effects of space on the human body. From floating sweat blobs to burping disasters, students discover how microgravity changes bones, muscles, digestion, hygiene, and even how we cry. Using real NASA videos, creative hands-on activities, and a smart blend of science and humor, this 25-page PDF turns physiology int
5th - 8th
Basic Principles, Engineering, Physical Science
DENSITY LAB: (Potato, aluminum, water, & air) Unique density lab & activity
There are hundreds of lab activities out there on the concept of density, what sets this lab apart from others that I have seen is the simple method for determining the density of air using readily available supplies, pictures included. (Also, this lab includes a great preview activity of the topic of density – Do Potatoes Sink or Float? Described below. As always, this lab is adorned with the pictures that you and your students have come to expect from eyeLEARN.)
Lesson Description: I usually
7th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Chemistry, Engineering, Physical Science
NEWTON’S LAW OF UNIVERSAL GRAVITATION: gravitational force mass distance, planet
NEWTON’S LAW OF UNIVERSAL GRAVITATION: gravitational force mass distance, planetary orbits Kepler, gravitational potential energy, space travel trajectories, Newton vs Einstein relativity reading comprehension passages. Why do apples fall but satellites soar, could you hurl a cannonball hard enough to loop Earth forever? Students uncover how massive planets yank moons into endless dances, spacecraft pirouette around Jupiter for free speed boosts, and black holes shred light itself. They explore
5th - 8th
Engineering, Physical Science, Physics
Sailing with STEM - Engineering Boats and Rain gutters
Can your students build a sailboat that travels the full length of a rain gutter using wind power?Students will use the engineering design process to brainstorm, build, and test sailboats using simple materials, then modify their designs based on performance.Set sail into STEM learning with this hands-on Sailing with STEM Packet! Perfect for grades 3–5, this exciting lesson challenges students to design and test their own sailboats to float and travel down a rain gutter waterway using the power
4th - 7th
Engineering, Measurement, Physical Science
Also included in: STEM Activities | Fifty Lessons Mega Bundle
Submarine Density Engineering Lab — Ballast Tank Design
This engineering challenge takes the complex physics of buoyancy and turns it into a hands-on mechanical system. By manipulating air volume with a syringe, students act as "ballast control officers," gaining a concrete understanding of how density dictates whether an object defies or succumbs to gravity in a fluid. Activity DescriptionBuild a Submarine is a premier STEM engineering lab that focuses on Archimedes' Principle and Density Control. Unlike static sink-or-float activities, this lab r
5th - 12th
Engineering, Physical Science, Physics
Also included in: Scientific Method and Measurement Skill Labs Bundle
Seed Dispersal Activities (Wind, Water, Animal, and Explosion!)
🌱 Seed Dispersal STEM Challenge Hands-On Science | Explore 4 Types of Seed DispersalBring plant science to life with this fun and interactive Seed Dispersal STEM Activity! Students explore four real-world seed dispersal methods—water, wind, animals, and explosion, by building simple, hands-on models using everyday classroom materials. This activity is designed to promote critical thinking, creativity, and scientific observation. With one easy-to-use student worksheet included, it's highly e
1st - 5th
Biology, Engineering
NGSS
K-2-ETS1-2
, 2-LS4-1
, 2-LS2-2
Density Formula Coloring Activity: Notes and Worksheets for Physics
Are your students having a difficult time applying the Density Formula? Use this fun coloring activity to help your students practice the Density Formula with these engaging, organized notes and worksheets! This resource is great for AP Physics 2, High School Science, Chemistry and Physics students to practice solving for Density and explore Fluid Mechanics! This resource is also a great supplement for Science and Chemistry teachers who need more Density Formula practice problems for their stude
8th - 12th
Engineering, Physical Science, Physics
Calculating Density Worksheets Practice Problems & Notes for High School Physics
Are your students having a difficult time applying the Density Formula? Use this download to help your students practice the Density Formula with organized notes and worksheets! This resource is great for AP Physics 2, High School Science, Chemistry and Physics students to practice solving for Density and explore Fluid Mechanics! This resource is also a great supplement for Science and Chemistry teachers who need more Density Formula practice problems for their students! By completing this assi
8th - 12th
Engineering, Physical Science, Physics
Magic School Bus S2E13 Ups and Downs PDF
For the Magic School Bus Worksheets they will be available with 2 column styling and traditional styling. There is also an answer key and time stamps for the answers provided This episode is focusing on when the children discover the truth about the Walkerville Lake monster. Is there a monster living in Walkerville Lake? That’s what Ms. Frizzle’s class is trying to find out. The kids try to dive down under the water, but the bus won’t go. The class has to figure out how to turn their floater int
3rd - 8th
Engineering, Physical Science, Science
NGSS
3-PS2-1
, 3-PS2-2
, MS-PS2-1
Also included in: Magic School Bus Season 2 Bundle PDF
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