{"id":662,"date":"2020-08-24T09:41:14","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T06:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/?p=662"},"modified":"2020-09-25T13:36:38","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T10:36:38","slug":"foil-boat-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/2020\/08\/24\/foil-boat-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Foil boat challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-660 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/files\/2020\/08\/foil-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Foil boat\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/files\/2020\/08\/foil-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/files\/2020\/08\/foil.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/>Your challenge is to build a boat that can hold the most small coins before it sinks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOU WILL NEED:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Large bowl of water<\/li>\n<li>30 plus small coins per boat<\/li>\n<li>Aluminum Foil<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>HOW TO SET UP YOUR BUOYANCY EXPERIMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Fill your bowl to 3\/4 with water.<\/li>\n<li>Cut two 8\u2033 squares of aluminum foil for each boat. Then form a small boat from the aluminium foil of one of them .<\/li>\n<li>Place 15 coins on the other square of tin foil (not the boat) and have the kids ball it up and place it in the water. What happens? (It sinks!)<\/li>\n<li>Place your boat in the water and see if it floats.\u00a0 Reshape if it doesn\u2019t! Then slowly add the coins one at a time. How many pennies can you count before it sinks?<\/li>\n<li>Extend the challenge by rebuilding your boat to see if it can hold even more pennies.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Scientific Explanation:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You are in this experiment working with\u00a0<em>Archimede Principle &#8211; <\/em>The lifting force of the water is always as great as the weight of the water that the object in the water displaces.<\/p>\n<p>This experiment came from <a href=\"https:\/\/littlebinsforlittlehands.com\/\">LittleBinsLittleHands<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your challenge is to build a boat that can hold the most small coins before it sinks. YOU WILL NEED: Large bowl of water 30 plus small coins per boat Aluminum Foil HOW TO SET UP YOUR BUOYANCY EXPERIMENT Fill your bowl to 3\/4 with water. Cut two 8\u2033 squares of aluminum foil for each &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/2020\/08\/24\/foil-boat-challenge\/\" class=\"more-link\">Forts\u00e4tt l\u00e4sa<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201dFoil boat challenge\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2590,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30020],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2590"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":669,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions\/669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.edu.turku.fi\/scienceed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}