Use the icons to help determine your needs. A price list and ordering information will follow the descriptions . Students engineer efficient boat models to determine how shape, mast height, mast placement, and number of masts effect stability and speed of sailing vessels. Concepts of buoyancy, center of gravity, drag, and ballast are explored. Students explore the mechanisms of color change and the importance of camouflage adaptation.
Students design a classroom flounder adapted to their specific classroom.
Hands-on activity demonstrating the effects of pressure and density on buoyancy. For an additional cost material for a class of 30 students will be supplied. Each student supplies the plastic soda bottle and goes home with an engaging Cartesian diver. A good introductory activity leading to the importance of currents to all life in the sea. Unfortunately, much of the information placed in front of us is either sensational, too technical, or too abstract for the student and the general public, or they do not provide a connection between their everyday actions and the impending long-term changes that may take place.