Floating & Sinking Science Experiments - Sink or Float Activities & Worksheets

Make teaching science easy and fun with this pack of Floating and Sinking Science Experiments! This fun, quick, and easy-to-use pack comes with everything you need to explore Sinking and Floating. It includes all you need to create a classroom "Sink or Float" Testing Station, floating and sinking experiments, density activities, differentiated worksheets, differentiated checklists, a flipbook, a crown, labels, and more great activities for kindergarten, 1st Grade and 2nd Grade.

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What's included in this Floating and Sinking Science Experiments resource:

• Definition sheets for Density, Floating, and Sinking
• A simple Floating and Sinking Flipbook.
• A Floating and Sinking crown

✢ The Experiments included in this sink or float activity pack:

• "The Great Ball Challenge” - a floating & sinking activity involving different balls with matching worksheets.
• "The Orange Test” - testing an unpeeled and peeled orange, 3 differentiated worksheets choose the appropriate level for your children, plus experiment instruction sheet and a simple explanation of density.
• "Can you Make a Boat that Floats” - STEM activity 2 differentiated worksheets to choose the appropriate level for your class. Includes draw your boat with labels or without, list materials or draw materials, and a what happened box.
• "The Boat Challenge” - Using foil or play dough, create a boat, test your boat with weights, compare and then scrunch foil into a ball and test. 2 differentiated versions of the worksheet choose the appropriate level for your children plus experiment instruction sheet.

✢ The Floating and Sinking Sort Station:

The station activity includes display title, labels and sink & float definitions. There are also 3 differentiated checklists that come in 9 different themes with a cut and paste worksheet for each theme. There is also a blank version for each checklist to add your own items. 

The 9 themes are:

• School supplies: highlighter, eraser, pencil, scissors, bingo dabber, marker, crayon
• Math equipment: ruler, paper clip, bear, block, math cubes, shapes - a triangle and a square
• Nature: seed, stick, flower, leaf, rock, feather,
• Kitchen items: plate, cup, spoon, fork, knife, bowl, spatula
• Containers: jar, box, drink bottle, lid, can, milk carton, cup
• Food: apple, egg, onion, potato, tomato, carrot
• Toys: block, car, rubber duck, boat, ball, doll
• Balls: balloon, tennis ball, basketball, bouncy ball, golf ball, beach ball,
• Random items: button, die, counter, a ball of playdough, block, pencil sharpener
• Household items: key, peg, coin, screw, nail, paper roll (ie toilet or paper towel), box
• Shapes: circle, rectangle, square, hexagon, pentagon, oval

So many fun things to do to explore Sinking and Floating!

➤ Size Formats:

As with most of my packs, this pack is duplicated in both US Letter & A4 Paper with appropriate spelling on opening simply select the pack right for you.

➤ What other teachers are saying about these Sinking and Floating Activities: 

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ “Thank you so much, Annie! As always, your resources are both fun and educational :)” - Rachel

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ “This was a really amazing resource and the children were all engaged by the tasks! Highly recommended and it fitted so well with our Titanic topic.” - Liam

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ “The students loved using this resource. They were so engaged in our science experiment and wanted to do more experiments. Thank you so much!: - Candace

➤ If these Sink or Float activities are the perfect fit for your classroom, you will also love these Science units: 

⭐ Weather and Seasons

⭐ Frog life Cycle Activities

⭐ Butterfly Life Cycle Activities

⭐ The Water Cycle

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