floating bodies

Simple text and illustrations explore why ice cubes float.

The kids from Ms. Frizzle's class learn lessons about why objects float or sink when they board the Magic School Bus--tranformed into a bus-boat--to investigate a report of a monster living in Walker Lake.

Uses simple experiments and activities to explore concepts such as density, upthrust, and water displacement and to explain why objects float or sink.

Presents simple hands-on experiments that demonstrate why some objects float and others sink.

The kids from Ms. Frizzle's class learn lessons about why objects float or sink when they board the Magic School Bus--tranformed into a bus-boat--to investigate a report of a monster living in Walker Lake.

Photographs, illustrations, and simple text provide an introduction to the difference between floating and sinking.

Uses simple experiments and activities to explore concepts such as density, upthrust, and water displacement and to explain why objects float or sink.

Experiments, projects, and puzzles explain the basic scientific principles of flight and floating.

Discusses objects that float and objects that sink and explains why they do so.

Explains in simple terms the reason some objects float.