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My Buoyancy Picture Dictionary |
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Science vocabulary can often be
difficult for children to master. This buoyancy dictionary is designed to
support mastery of dictionary skills while also providing practice with
vocabulary. We always go over the sample entry and do the first entry
together so that children know what is expected of them. I encourage
children to try to write a "student-friendly" definition so that they can
easily understand it. They can then check their definition in the dictionary
or their science notebooks.
Target Vocabulary: sink, float,
buoyancy, displacement, submerge, cargo, capacity, volume, density, |
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My Buoyancy Picture Dictionary |
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Hmmmm...Water? |
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Prior to starting our investigations we do a few lessons related to what we know about water and what water is. The purpose is to get students thinking about the fact that this unit of study focuses around water and its properties. |
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Water as a Natural Resource
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Were You Aware? |
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The Amazing Water Molecule Instructional Worksheet Project Directions and Template  |
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Our investigations begin with making hypotheses about objects from around the classroom that may sink or float. We record our predictions on the worksheet that follows, then we experiment. Discussion ensues related why certain objects sink, while others float. |
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Sink or Float? |
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We then look at a set of given objects and use what we learned in the first sink/float activity to predict whether these objects will sink or float. We write our hypotheses on the worksheet with a brief reason stating why. Again, we experiment! Discussion follows related to surprises we found when we tested these objects. |
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Sink or Float? |
Sink or Float
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 Click here to go to buoyancy websites! Click here to go to pictures! |
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