Overview: The activity involves creating a figure using the drinking straws to

make the four coins float in the water. Using drinking straws, we will investigate the
ideas of buoyant force and the Archimedes' Principle in this experiment.

Materials:
● Basin
● Drinking straw
● Adhesive tape
● 4 coins
● Water

Documentation:

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Discussion:
Our group was tasked to make the four coins float in a basin with water using the
materials we brought, which were the straw, and adhesive tape. We came up with the idea of
making a prototype of "balsa" which is a small raft made of bamboo using the straws we brought
for the coins to float. For the raft made with straws to float, we tape the edges of each straw so
that it will become a pocket of air. Because the air is less dense, the raft we made floated. Then
we put the coins in the raft we made in the basin with water and observed that they floated
together. Because the buoyant force outweighed the coins' weight, it floated.
To summarize, the coins floated due to buoyancy, which occurs when there is a differential in
pressure pressing on the opposing side of an object immersed in a static fluid, as described by
Archimedes' principle.

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