What Floats Your Boat?
Boat Design Gallery |
Design and Build
You will be designing and building your own cardboard boat. You will be provided with only packing tape and cardboard to complete this task and will need to float your boat around a short course. Before you build, you will need to design your boat and produce a scale drawing! Start drawing. What will you need to know for this assignment? Area of circle Volume of a prism Accurately measure using electronic scales, measuring cylinder & hydrometer Intro to algebra – variables Substitution into formulas Density = mass/volume Gravity & intro to Balanced Forces Algebra rearranging equations How to write a science report Floatation
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