Building plankton models

Andando a deriva- Experimento de plâncton

Ciência Viva

Target Group: Middle School

Language: Portuguese

Subject: Plankton

Ocean Literacy Principle: 5

Activities:

Students build their own models of plankton from aluminum foil. The students are challenged to create a model that floats, but starts sinking after a while, mimicking the plankton behavior.

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Materials:

Plastic containers or buckets, aluminum foil, salt, stopwatch (or mobile phone), projector and computer or printed version of images of plankton

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