By: Janet Blair8814-05

Table of Contents

• What is sink and float?

• Make a guess and see if you know what is sinking and what is floating.

• Review – Chart

• Graph

• Instructions on how to experiment

• Assessment

What does it mean to float?

What does it mean to sink?•

Let’s take a look!!

Is the girl sinking or floating?You decide!

•float

•sink

What about the shells?You decide!

•floating

•sinking

What about the block?You decide!

•floating

•sinking

Click on picture for video clip

What about the balls?You decide!.

•floating

•sinking

What about the boat?You decide!

•floating

•sinking

Are her bath toys sinking or floating?You decide!

•floating

•Sinking

Is the car sinking or floating?You decide!

•floating

•sinking

What about the otter?You decide!

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•sinking

•floating

Let’s ReviewWhat sinks and floats?

sinks

Trucks sink in Mud.

Boats with wholes sink.

Shells sink in water.

Heavy Boxes in Peanut Butter

floats

People can float in water.

Balls can float in water.

Bathtub toys float.

Otter in water

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4 3

Click on each box, and see what

we are going to do.

Assessment

Read the graph from last year. We will make a graph predicting what we

think!

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spoon rock dice cup bowl coins leaves

sink

float

Predictions

0 5 10 15 20 25

spoon

rock

dice

cup

bowl

coins

leaves

Ob

ject

s te

sted

Number of Votes

float

sink

Graph did not look good as a pie

Testing our predictions

Complete the graphic organizer

Student clip art Graphic Organizer

Writers’ Workshop

1. Get a piece of folded writing paper2. On one side of the paper, draw one

picture of something that sinks.

3. On the other side of the paper, draw one picture that floats.

4. Write a sentence about each picture.

Assessment

Student’s Name Does not Meets

Standards

Meets Standards

Exceeds Standards

Shows thinking about predicting

Worked well experimenting and working with group

Completed graphic organizer

Completed writing assignment

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The End