Museum of Science
Museum of Science and Industry: Online Science: Design a Submarine
Become an engineer, and design a submarine that moves in the water like a real submarine. Try making it sink, float, and hover in the water.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Floating and Falling Flows
Students discover fluid dynamics related to buoyancy through experimentation and optional photography. Using one set of fluids, they make light fluids rise through denser fluids. Using another set, they make dense fluids sink through a...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Density Rainbow and the Great Viscosity Race
Students explore the densities and viscosities of fluids as they create a colorful 'rainbow' using household liquids. While letting the fluids in the rainbow settle, students conduct 'The Great Viscosity Race,' another short experiment...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Buoyant Boats
Students learn about displacement, density and buoyancy then apply their knowledge to build a floating object.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Clay Boats
Each student uses a small quantity of modeling clay to make a boat that will float in a tub of water. The object is to build a boat that will hold as much weight as possible without sinking. In the process of designing and testing their...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Chemistry: Density
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers density and provides examples of density calculations.
Other
Welcome to Puerto Rico: People
"Welcome to Puerto Rico" provides an extensively detailed page that describes the population density of Puerto Rico. Information is given about birth rates, death rates, and even cause of death percentages.
Read Works
Read Works: Talk About Dense
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text explaining the density of solids and liquids. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Calculating Derived Quantities
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Definition of derived quantity and calculation and units of derived quantities (area, volume, density).
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Calculating Derived Quantities
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Definition of derived quantity and calculation and units of derived quantities (area, volume, density).
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Plix: Density
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this interactive you will move the red dot to help John match the density of the blue box to another box. You will need a sign-in to access this media, but it will be well worth your time!
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Buoyancy
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Definition of buoyant force and how weight and density relate to buoyant force and the ability to float.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Density
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Definition of density and how to calculate density.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Definition of Density
An introduction to the definition and formula of density, complete with real world examples of objects with different densities.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Percent Difference Calculations Ii
This guided example demonstrates how to find the density of a substance, and then compare the calculation to the density listed in reference sources.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Matter: I Love Density
Directions for a lab that compares the density of a marble, wood, water and two different types of candy bars.
Other
German Embassy: Land and People
Part of the Germany Online site; provides numerous facts and figures on the population of Germany, including population density.
NASA
Nasa Star Child: Saturn, the Ringed Planet (Level 2)
An introductory site with information about planet Saturn, with a good glossary, a brief quiz, and links for more information. Printable version also available.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: G Mg How Many Cells Are in the Human Body?
About how many cells are in the human body? The purpose of this task is for students to apply the concepts of mass, volume, and density in a real-world context. Aligns with G-MG.A.2.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Measuring and Comparing Matter
For this activity, students will measure a variety of different materials from the classroom to determine how much matter is found in these materials then determine the mass of these materials using the same volume for each. The data...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Mars Habitat
In this lesson, students are asked to examine a model for a space station on Mars that will house six researchers studying the possibility of establishing a colony. Given the dimensions of the station and the minimum amount of space...
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Stuff to Do: Density of Salty Water
An experiment to test what happens when ocean water hits a freshwater estuary. Each step is demonstrated with photographs and the difference between salinity and density is explained.
Physics Aviary
Physics Aviary: Practice Problems: Density of Rock Determination
Students must determine the density of a rock based on the change in tension in the supporting string when the rock is lowered into a fluid.