Cut a piece of tin foil 5 x 6 inches.
Tin foil boat marbles.
Then reshape your boat to see if you can get it to hold more marbles than your first try.
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Materials needed metric ruler scissors 2 pieces of aluminum foil 16 cm x 13 5 cm big bowl of water 30 to 40.
Tin foil boat raft design.
Test your design to see if it floats.
Aluminum foil heavy duty works best empty containers in different shapes such as bowls cups yogurt tubs tennis ball tubes small boxes etc.
See how many pennies your boat can carry before it sinks.
Place the boat in the bowl of water.
Remember to be gentle with your foil and dry it off between trials.
Read the book shark in the dark discuss what you know about sharks.
A larger boat usually holds more weight than a smaller one.
Add marbles one at a time until it sinks.
First you will need to fold in each of the edges of the foil about 1 2 inch.
Design a boat using aluminum foil.
The shapes of the boats all helped to spread out the weight of the boat.
You can use more or less if you want.
Whichever boat was able to support the most weight wins.
Fold up the sides of the boat so it will not sink and hold a cargo of pennies.
Finally you will pinch the corners together to close off the edges.
12 x 12 aluminum foil ruler scissors pen pencil i hand folded everything.
Build a boat out of aluminum foil and see how many marbles your boat can hold.
Rip off a square of foil.
You will start with a rectangular piece of foil.
For example you could make one square be 12 inches by 12 inches or 30 centimeters cm by 30 cm and make the second square be 6 inches by 6 inches or 15 cm by 15 cm.
Fold the two aluminum foil squares into two different boat hulls.
A large tub of water.
Introduce the challenge how many marbles can you rescue from the shark.
Begin adding pennies for the boat s cargo.
Many moons ago when i was in high school my english teacher gave us an assignment to try and build a boat out of two sheets of aluminum foil that were each 2 square feet in area 1 x2.
How much space a boat takes up can help spread out the gravity over a larger area.
Form the foil over one of your shapes.
Tin foil bowl scissors pennies water directions.
Then you open up the fold edges and stand them straight up.
Small weights marbles nuts bolts and washers then do this.