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- Costs 12.00 per student
- Takes about 1.50 hours
- Theme: Water
Description
Water is the perfect laboratory for experiment. Construct a boat. How will water test its materials, balance, and buoyancy? Test your work in our Water Learning Lab (May – Sept). Choose our Fishing Boat or the Leonardo Paddlewheel Boat.
Meets Connecticut Science Standards
- K.1: Objects have properties that can be observed and used to describe similarities and differences.
Meets Common Core Standards
- K-PS2: Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions
Meets Next Generation Science Standards
- K-PS2: Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions K-PS2-1 Plan & conduct investigation to compare effects of different strengths or directions of pushes and pulls on motion of an object. K-PS2-2 Analyze data to determine if design solution works to change speed or direction of object with push or pull. PS2.A Forces and Motion PS2.B Types of Interactions PS3.C Relationship Between Energy and Forces
- K-LS1: K-LS1-1. Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive.
- K-ESS3: Earth and Human Activity KESS3-1: Use a model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants or animals (including humans) and the places they live.. KESS3-2: Ask questions to obtain information about the purpose of weather forecasting to prepare for, and respond to, severe weather. ETS1.A : Asking questions, making observations, gathering information are helpful in thinking about problems.