Did you know that a pumpkin can float? This was Mrs. Corino's awesome idea! When our kiddos had half day, we conducted this experiment. When we read the book We Are So Proud a few weeks ago, float was one of our amazing words. In the story the word describes what you would ride on in a parade. It was pretty impressive to see our kiddos realize that there are two meanings for the same word!
We made predictions about what regular classroom items would sink or float
based upon what they are made from, how heavy or light they are, etc....
The kiddos were shocked that the pumpkin does FLOAT! The kiddos loved this experiment!
Here are all of the items that we tested.
