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Rock and Boat: Density, Buoyancy & Archimedes’ Principle
| Content Provider | TeachEngineering: STEM curriculum for K-12 |
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| Author | Sappington, Emily Taylor, Mila |
| Copyright Year | 2014 |
| Description | Students are challenged with determining whether the water level in a pond rises, drops or remains the same after a large rock is thrown overboard from a floating boat in a pond. Students are presented with a challenge question that they must answer with scientific and mathematical reasoning. The challenge question is: "You have a large rock on a boat that is floating in a pond. You throw the rock overboard and it sinks to the bottom of the pond. Does the water level in the pond rise, drop or remain the same?" Students observe Archimedes' principle in action in this model recreation of the challenge question when a toy boat is placed in a container of water and a rock is placed on the floating boat. Students use terminology learned in the classroom as well as critical thinking skills to derive equations needed to answer this question. |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights Holder | University of Houston Regents of The University of Colorado |
| Subject Keyword | Chemistry Physical Science Physics Problem Solving Reasoning and Proof Archimedes' Principle Density Mass Pressure Fluid Mechanics Buoyancy |
| Content Type | Text |
| Time Required | PT45M |
| Education Level | Class IX Class X Class XI Class XII |
| Pedagogy | Experimental Activity |
| Resource Type | Hands-on |
| Subject | Physics Chemistry |
