Apple sink or float

Last week in preschool we learned about apples. What a fun week we had tasting, counting, painting, exploring and reading about apples...

I have to confess, its at this time of the year that I wish I was anywhere but Florida. I ventured out today on the hunt for leaves. Like, "I spy with my little eyes..." It will be a minute before the weather feels crisp and the leaves sprinkle the grass. Oh my, I long for the colorful trees. I begin to begrudge the season for stealing my sunshine and stretching the nocturnal hours until I experience the first hint of fall with scented fragrances, cinnamon broomsticks, pumpkin spice coffee…

Engaging apple-themed science experiments, STEM challenges, and crafts perfect for fall! This blog post features hands-on activities like building apple towers, designing apple boats, and exploring the parts of an apple through creative crafts. Students will love investigating why apples float, what keeps them from browning, and even making apple volcanoes. With both print and digital recording options, these activities are perfect for integrating technology into your fall curriculum.

Apple boats are fun and easy to make. Most importantly, they let you discover whether or not an apple will sink or float in water. Great STEM activity for the fall!

This is a fun and engaging science activity to do during an apple unit. The students draw the apple and predict if the apple will float or sink. Then the teacher drops an apple in a tub of water and students observe if the apple floats or sinks! It's always a hit! then the students color thumbs up if it floated or thumbs down if the apple did not float. Lastly, the students draw what they observe, an apple floating on the top of the water.

Set up this easy Fall sink or float preschool science experiment to introduce your child to the scientific method, buoyancy, and density.

We had such a blast last week finishing up our unit on apples! The kids were so excited Friday when they were able to tell people around the school all they learned! We learned about how an apple grow

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Isn’t it an amazing fact that apples are so lightweight that they float? The apple floats because the apple is less dense than water. When the apple is resting on water, it displaces an amount of water which weighs the same as the whole apple. Objects more dense than water sink because even when fully submerged they do not displace enough water to equal their weight.

This is part 1 of a 5 part hands-on unit study on Floating & Flying (Fluid Mechanics). This week's focus is buoyancy (floating). Build an aluminium foil barge that can hold the most pennies, experiment with what floats and sinks and why, explore the relationship between density and buoyancy, and more! My lessons are geared toward 4th-5th grade level children and their siblings. These are lessons I created to do with a weekly homeschool co-op. We meet each week for 2 1/2 hours and have 33…