WHO HAS EVER

BEEN ON A
BOAT?
 Boats
&
Buoyancy
By: Isabelle Kenny, Breanna
MacEachern, Emma Tobin, and Maria
Siggelkow

 Learning Outcomes
Grade 2 Science

2–7 Construct objects that will float on and move through water, and evaluate
various designs for watercraft.

1 2 3
Describe and classify Modifying a watercraft Explain why a given material,
objects based on their to increase its load and design, or component is
buoyancy and density
 stability in water
 appropriate to the design
task

 TABLE OF CONTENTS
01 02 03
What are we What makes
Group Activity
covering? objects
 float? In groups students will
When the weight of the create their own boat and
Boats and Buoyancy

object weighs more than compete to see whos boat
the water underneath it. 
 will hold the most weight


04 05
Discussion Questions
After group activity, students
will have the time to discuss Any comments or
and reflect on the activity 
 questions on the lesson

 Buoyancy
What is Buoyancy?

★ The force on an object that
makes it rise or move
upwards

★ Buoyancy comes from the
difference in pressure put
on by the object by the fluid
that the object is in (e.g.
the pressure put on a boat
from the water that it is in)






 Density
★ The density of how compact
the mass in a substance or
object is.



★ If an object is more dense than
the water it is sitting in, it will
sink. If an object is less dense
than the water it will float 

 Floating
What floats? What doesn’t float?
★ Paper
 ★ Rocks

★ Leaves
 ★ Marbles

★ Balloons 
 ★ Pennys

★ Pencils
 ★ Cell Phone 

★ Plastic Bottle 
 ★ Hammer 

★ Feathers
 ★ Nails and Screws

Different Types of
Boats
★ Row Boats

★ Sail Boats 

★ Canoes 

★ Motor Boats

★ Yachts 

★ Cruise Ships 

★ Cargo Ships

 Group
Activity
 Any
Questions?