Kindergarten Sinks Wood!

Kindergarteners already discovered that wood floats and were now given the challenge to sink wood!  They had two samples of wood (plywood and pine wood) along with rubber bands and paperclips.  They decided that they should attach the paperclips to the wood to make it heavier!

I sunk the plywood!

Techniques varied.  Some put paperclips on all four sides of the wood.  Some put all the paperclips on one side of the wood.  Both ways seemed to work the same.

 We discovered that the pine wood needed more paperclips than the plywood because the plywood is heavier than the pine wood.

For the wood to sink, it has to be on the bottom
of the container.

We were surprised at how many paperclips we needed to sink the wood!