By DONNA BURROUGHS, EdS
Superintendent, Triton Community School Corporation

The sixth-grade Science Classes at Triton Elementary School finished an exploratory lab in comparing buoyancy.

In this lab they calculated the density of five different liquids and then combined them to form a density column.

They calculated the volume and mass of five small objects and observed the buoyancy of each object in the density column.

When they formed their Hypothesis they had to decide if mass, volume, or density determined the buoyancy of each object.

They soon found out that Density was the most important factor in determining the buoyancy of the objects.