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TOPIC- Wonderful Water

SUB TOPIC- Float Or Sink

LEARNING OBJECTIVE- To explore the things that sink and float on water.

DISCUSSION-

• Compare the things and share which one sinks in water and which one
floats on water.
• Take two transparent containers filled with water. In one container, the
teacher puts stones, and in another container, she puts ice-cream sticks.
• Observe those two containers and note down responses.
• Take some objects and put them in water to see that some float on the
surface of the water and some sink to the bottom of the water.
• Explaining lighter things like paper, straw, flowers, leaves, ice-cream
sticks, and sharpeners float on water, whereas erasers, spoons, scissors,

blocks, and pebbles sink in water.
• The objects that float are lighter than water, while those that sink are
heavier than water.
• Activity: I Can Float, I Can Sink: Explore things that float or sink.
REVISION QUESTIONS(Oral)

1. Why do some objects float on water?

2. Why do some objects sink in water?
3. Does a paper boat float or sink in water?
4. Can a pebble float on water? Why?

5. How did you feel while experimenting?
6. Compare a spoon and a cotton ball. Does it float or sink water? Why?