Best Sink or Float Resources: Videos, Worksheets & More
Best Sink or Float Teaching Resources: Videos, Worksheets & More
Why do some objects float while other objects sink? A fun question that sparks the curiousity of young learners and makes for a great hands on learning experience. Below are a list of creative resources that can be used to help teach kids about buoyancy and density.
Reading Resources
Things That Float & Things That Don’t – Learn about why things floats and why they don’t.
What Floats? What Sinks? – An in depth learning on density, buoyancy and more.
Will It Float or Sink? – Learn about materials and their properties and how that causes an item to sink or float.
Video Resources
If you don’t have available the books mentioned above for your sink or float lesson their are some great read aloud video resources available below.
If you aren’t able to bring in a tub of water for your lesson, the videos below will do all of the work for you. Kids can use our worksheets and follow along with the videos and decide whether they think items will sink or float.
Worksheets
We have created 3 helpful worksheets to make it hassle free and exciting to teach about items that float and items that don’t. Two of the worksheets are perfect for independent work where kids will circle whether common objects will sink or float. The third worksheet is for hands on experiments – kids can write down each item that is being tested and then mark whether it sinks or floats. You can find all the printables in our shop.
