STEM Club - Boats
Lesson: Science
STEM Club Week 3
Tin foil boat
You will need
Tin foil
Scissors
Bowl of water
Pennies
Instructions
1. Use scissors to carefully cut the tinfoil into 2 rectangle shapes.
2. With the first piece of foil, form a boat that can hold pennies and
not sink.
3. Predict how many pennies your boat will hold.
4. Place the foil boat in the bowl of water.
5. Place 1 penny at a time in the boat. Keep adding pennies until the boat
sinks. Make sure you count them as you go!
6. Use the second piece of foil to make a new boat, based on what you
observed from your previous design.
7. Estimate how many pennies the new design will hold.
8. Place the new boat in water, and carefully place 1 penny at a time
in the boat until it sinks.
Tin foil boat results
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Design 1 |
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Prediction (What do you think will happen?) |
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Actual number of pennies |
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My second boat design
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Design 2 |
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Prediction (What do you think will happen?) |
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Actual number of pennies |
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What which boat held the most pennies?
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Why do you think it held more pennies?
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