Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Let's Try It Out in the Water	Seymour Simon	In Let's Try It Out in the Water, children will learn about buoyancy. They will be able to observe that objects that are heavier than an equal volume of water sink, and objects that are lighter than …	OL118074W
Floating or sinking	Charlotte Guillain	Read this book to learn how materials that float and sink are different.	OL11818123W
Diet and nutrition	Katie Dicker	"Discusses the importance of having a balanced, healthy diet and a healthy body image in your teenage years, gives information on how the body digests various foods, and gives tips for making healthy…	OL15111198W
Dime cómo flotan los barcos?	Shirley Willis	Uses simple experiments and activities, to explore concepts such as density, upthrust, and water displacement; and to explain why objects float or sink.	OL16053541W
Flotar	Patricia Whitehouse	Presents simple hands-on experiments that demonstrate why some objects float and others sink.	OL18297314W
Things that float and things that don't	David A. Adler,Anna Raff	"An apple floats in a tub of water, but a ball of aluminum foil sinks to the bottom. But wait. If that same ball of foil is flattened out and shaped into a boat, it floats! How can that be? David A. …	OL19968252W
What floats?	Jill McDougall	Photographs and simple text present questions about objects that may or may not float. Teacher's notes include blackline activity masters and a Record of Oral Reading form.	OL24155897W
Floating and sinking	Sue Barraclough	This series takes a simple look at the area of motion. Each book takes a pair of opposites and shows how they exist in areas that are familiar to and of interest to young children. This book looks at…	OL24265362W
Floating and sinking	Karen Bryant-Mole	Describes why things float or sink and presents simple experiments to demonstrate the scientific principles involved. Suggested level: junior, primary.	OL24265363W
Does an Elephant Float?	Tony Stead,Capstone Classroom	1 volume : 23 cm	OL24802800W
Hydrodynamic interaction of waves with a large displacement floating body	C. J. Garrison	This report describes the analytical method and numerical procedure for the calculation of the wave pressure distribution and resulting induced forces and moments acting on large displacement bodies …	OL24956884W
Sink or float?	Lisa Trumbauer	Describes the basic principle of materials that float in the water or sink in the water.	OL27298142W
Floating and sailing	Terry J. Jennings	Explains displacement and fundamentals of sailing, gives directions for building a catamaran and a hovercraft, and suggests experiments showing how things float.	OL2919503W
Floating and Sinking	Terry J. Jennings	Presents simple experiments and activities to demonstrate why some things float but others sink.	OL2919505W
Projects with water	Williams, John	Provides instructions for projects involving rafts, paddle boats, and other objects that float.	OL3265394W
Floating and Sinking (Start-Up Science)	Jack Challoner	Simple activities introduce the qualities of things that float in water, the difference between floating and swimming, and how balloons and airships stay up in the air.	OL482727W
The Strange thing that happened to Oliver Wendell Iscovitch	Helen Kronberg Olson	Oliver Wendell Iscovitch turns his new-found talent of floating when he holds his breath to a distinct advantage.	OL5914699W
Liquid and buoyancy	Barbara Taylor	Illustrates with experiments how objects displace water to stay afloat, why some objects float and others sink, and why the water's ability to sustain weight makes swimming, diving, and other water s…	OL648269W
What floats?	Mary Brewer	Discusses objects that float and objects that sink and explains why they do so.	OL7092178W
Ups And Downs	Jane B. Mason,Nancy Stevenson,Mary Pope Osborne,Joanna Cole	Is there a monster living in Walker Lake? That's what Ms.Fizzle's class is trying to find out. The kids try to dive down under the water, but the bus won't go! The class has to figure out how to turn…	OL83058W