DENSITY AND BUOYANCY WEB SITES
http://www.explorescience.com/activities/Activity_page.cfm?ActivityID=29
This web site is good
practice for figuring density and buoyancy. You get to pick up and drag certain shapes to a scale to
find their mass, and then you can drag the object to a graduated cylinder and
find its volume by water displacement.
Then this site will figure the density for you. You need to print
Handout 2 and fill in the data sheet as you work. Then you need to answer the questions about density.
http://www.surfnetkids.com/quiz/buoyancy/
This web site is a game with
questions about density and buoyancy.
You can choose easy, medium, and difficult questions and the web site
will explain why your answer is right or wrong and keep score for you!
http://www.surfnetkids.com/games/buoyancy-mm.htm
This is another game. You have to match the first half of a
sentence about density and buoyancy with the correct second half of the
sentence. This web site will also
keep score for you.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lasalle/
This is a web site that
starts with the story of a ship that sank in 1686. You can read its story, visit the wreck, and check out the
artifacts that were found. There
is also a section called Bouyancy Brainteasers. Be sure you click on Bouyancy Basics before you try the
brain teasers.
This site gives you a tour of
NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Lab at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. This is where the astronauts train for
space flights. They practice
underwater, because that is the closest we can get on earth to micro-gravity.
http://www.brainpop.com/science/forces/buoyancy/index.weml
At this web site you can see
a movie about buoyancy and take a quiz.
Listen carefully--the explanations are pretty good. BE SURE YOU USE
HEADPHONES BECAUSE THIS MOVIE HAS SOUND.