Rip off a square of foil.
Tin foil boat marbles.
Aluminum foil heavy duty works best empty containers in different shapes such as bowls cups yogurt tubs tennis ball tubes small boxes etc.
For example you could make one square be 12 inches by 12 inches or 30 centimeters cm by 30 cm and make the second square be 6 inches by 6 inches or 15 cm by 15 cm.
Count how many marbles your boat held.
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Build a boat out of aluminum foil and see how many marbles your boat can hold.
Remember to be gentle with your foil and dry it off between trials.
Whichever boat was able to support the most weight wins.
Place the boat in the bowl of water.
Then reshape your boat to see if you can get it to hold more marbles than your first try.
Introduce the challenge how many marbles can you rescue from the shark.
The shapes of the boats all helped to spread out the weight of the boat.
Finally you will pinch the corners together to close off the edges.
How much space a boat takes up can help spread out the gravity over a larger area.
Fold the two aluminum foil squares into two different boat hulls.
Then you open up the fold edges and stand them straight up.
Cut two squares of aluminum foil making one square have dimensions that are twice that of the other square.
Materials needed metric ruler scissors 2 pieces of aluminum foil 16 cm x 13 5 cm big bowl of water 30 to 40.
You will start with a rectangular piece of foil.
Read the book shark in the dark discuss what you know about sharks.
First you will need to fold in each of the edges of the foil about 1 2 inch.
12 x 12 aluminum foil ruler scissors pen pencil i hand folded everything.
Cut a piece of tin foil 5 x 6 inches.
Tin foil boat raft design.
Tin foil bowl scissors pennies water directions.
Form the foil over one of your shapes.
Begin adding pennies for the boat s cargo.
A large tub of water.
You can use more or less if you want.
Add marbles one at a time until it sinks.
Small weights marbles nuts bolts and washers then do this.
Fold up the sides of the boat so it will not sink and hold a cargo of pennies.
Aluminum foil boat experiment continued aluminum foil boat experiment was it your largest boat that could hold the most weights.
See how many pennies your boat can carry before it sinks.
A larger boat usually holds more weight than a smaller one.