A Sinking Feeling
Mr Tuala’s class have lost the Boat Float competition and they want to figure out why.
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Series: Connected 2015 level 4 - Is That So?
Category: Non-fiction
Strand: Nature of science
A Sinking Feeling
Words by Ken Benn
Illustrations by Fraser Williamson
By learning more about density (and how it relates to floating a boat), they critique their original boat designs and use what they have learned to design and build new, more successful boats.
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