Tin Foil Boat Marbles

Place the boat in the bowl of water.

Tin foil boat marbles. How much space a boat takes up can help spread out the gravity over a larger area. Fold up the sides of the boat so it will not sink and hold a cargo of pennies. Add marbles one at a time until it sinks. A large tub of water.

Form the foil over one of your shapes. Introduce the challenge how many marbles can you rescue from the shark. Count how many marbles your boat held. 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.

Build a boat out of aluminum foil and see how many marbles your boat can hold. 12 x 12 aluminum foil ruler scissors pen pencil i hand folded everything. Aluminum foil heavy duty works best empty containers in different shapes such as bowls cups yogurt tubs tennis ball tubes small boxes etc. You will start with a rectangular piece of foil.

Materials needed metric ruler scissors 2 pieces of aluminum foil 16 cm x 13 5 cm big bowl of water 30 to 40. Read the book shark in the dark discuss what you know about sharks. Rip off a square of foil. Finally you will pinch the corners together to close off the edges.

Whichever boat was able to support the most weight wins. You can use more or less if you want. Tin foil bowl scissors pennies water directions. Small weights marbles nuts bolts and washers then do this.

Tin foil boat raft design. The shapes of the boats all helped to spread out the weight of the boat. Aluminum foil boat experiment continued aluminum foil boat experiment was it your largest boat that could hold the most weights. Test your design to see if it floats.

First you will need to fold in each of the edges of the foil about 1 2 inch. Then reshape your boat to see if you can get it to hold more marbles than your first try. Cut a piece of tin foil 5 x 6 inches. A larger boat usually holds more weight than a smaller one.

Cut two squares of aluminum foil making one square have dimensions that are twice that of the other square. Fold the two aluminum foil squares into two different boat hulls. See how many pennies your boat can carry before it sinks. 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.

Begin adding pennies for the boat s cargo. Remember to be gentle with your foil and dry it off between trials.