Tin Foil Boat Marbles

Begin adding pennies for the boat s cargo.

Tin foil boat marbles.

The shapes of the boats all helped to spread out the weight of the boat. Cut a piece of tin foil 5 x 6 inches. How much space a boat takes up can help spread out the gravity over a larger area. Materials needed metric ruler scissors 2 pieces of aluminum foil 16 cm x 13 5 cm big bowl of water 30 to 40.

Aluminum foil heavy duty works best empty containers in different shapes such as bowls cups yogurt tubs tennis ball tubes small boxes etc. Tin foil boat raft design. Rip off a square of foil. Test your design to see if it floats.

12 x 12 aluminum foil ruler scissors pen pencil i hand folded everything. Build a boat out of aluminum foil and see how many marbles your boat can hold. A larger boat usually holds more weight than a smaller one. Add marbles one at a time until it sinks.

Introduce the challenge how many marbles can you rescue from the shark. You will start with a rectangular piece of foil. Remember to be gentle with your foil and dry it off between trials. Aluminum foil boat experiment continued aluminum foil boat experiment was it your largest boat that could hold the most weights.

Fold up the sides of the boat so it will not sink and hold a cargo of pennies. Check out my tpt store for the complete stem activity challenge package. Tin foil bowl scissors pennies water directions. Then you open up the fold edges and stand them straight up.

Many moons ago when i was in high school my english teacher gave us an assignment to try and build a boat out of two sheets of aluminum foil that were each 2 square feet in area 1 x2. 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. See how many pennies your boat can carry before it sinks.

Fold the two aluminum foil squares into two different boat hulls. Then reshape your boat to see if you can get it to hold more marbles than your first try. A large tub of water. Cut two squares of aluminum foil making one square have dimensions that are twice that of the other square.

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. Design a boat using aluminum foil. Place the boat in the bowl of water. Finally you will pinch the corners together to close off the edges.

You can use more or less if you want. Small weights marbles nuts bolts and washers then do this.