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Will it float or sink? Predict and test

Kindergarten (Reception and Year 1 in England) · 16 questions · Common Core: NGSS.K-2-ETS1-1, NGSS.SEP 3 · England: EYFS Understanding the World: The natural world, KS1 Y1 Everyday materials

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Question 1
How can you find out if a toy floats?
- A. Look at its colour.
- B. Predict, then put it in water and watch.
- C. Smell it.
- D. Ask which toy is the favourite.
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Question 2
Will this float or sink in water: an ice cube?
- A. floats
- B. sinks
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Question 3
Three of these float. Which one does NOT?
- A. an apple
- B. a coin
- C. a wooden block
- D. an ice cube
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Question 4
Zoe thinks a big wooden log will sink because it is big. What will really happen?
- A. It floats only at night.
- B. It sinks because it is big.
- C. It floats, because wood floats whatever its size.
- D. It turns to mud.
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Question 5
Will this float or sink in water: a cork?
- A. floats
- B. sinks
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Question 6
Three of these sink. Which one does NOT?
- A. a coin
- B. a glass marble
- C. a ping-pong ball
- D. a pebble
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Question 7
An empty plastic bottle with its lid on floats. What do you predict if you fill it with sand?
- A. It will float exactly the same.
- B. It will fly.
- C. It will probably sink.
- D. It will float higher.
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Question 8
Will this float or sink in water: a leaf?
- A. floats
- B. sinks
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Question 9
Three of these float. Which one does NOT?
- A. a wooden block
- B. a plastic duck
- C. an iron nail
- D. an apple
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Question 10
An empty plastic bottle with its lid on floats. What do you predict if you fill it with sand?
- A. It will float exactly the same.
- B. It will float higher.
- C. It will fly.
- D. It will probably sink.
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Question 11
Will this float or sink in water: a coin?
- A. floats
- B. sinks
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Question 12
Three of these float. Which one does NOT?
- A. a key
- B. an apple
- C. a leaf
- D. an ice cube
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Question 13
A ball of modelling clay sinks. Leo shapes the same clay into a boat. What happens?
- A. The boat shape can float.
- B. It dissolves.
- C. It sinks faster.
- D. It turns into wood.
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Question 14
Will this float or sink in water: an apple?
- A. floats
- B. sinks
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Question 15
Three of these float. Which one does NOT?
- A. a plastic duck
- B. a ping-pong ball
- C. a wooden block
- D. a glass marble
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Question 16
An empty plastic bottle with its lid on floats. What do you predict if you fill it with sand?
- A. It will fly.
- B. It will float higher.
- C. It will float exactly the same.
- D. It will probably sink.

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