Materials: Plastic cups, puffed rice, salt, triple beam balance, cardboard boxes such as empty cereal or cookie boxes, string, scissors, fine-tipped permanent markers, small toys, water, graduated cylinders, modeling clay, plastic tubs with water Time Frame for Activity: 1-2 class periods Activity: ARCHIMEDES AND A CROWN FIT FOR A KING BACKGROUND INFORMATION: According to the World Book Encyclopedia, "Archimedes' principle states that an object placed in a liquid seems to lose an amount of weight equal to the weight of the fluid it displaces" or "...a floating object displaces an amount of liquid equal to its own weight."
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Archimedes ' principle states,List([405, 433))
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that an object placed in a liquid seems to lose an amount of weight equal to the weight of the fluid
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an amount of liquid equal to its own weight
an amount of weight equal to the weight of the fluid