Technical specifications

Size of kit: 540 x 450 x 150 mm

• 1 - Introduction 2: How to use plasticine for experiments

  experiment "Introduction 2: How to use plasticine for experiments"

  The main goal of this tutorial is the ability to divide the dough into equal portions in the box.

  
  
• 2 - Workstation 1: Why does light plasticine float?

  experiment "Workstation 1: Why does light plasticine float?"

  The children fill mini cups with water and modeling clay of different weights. You watch what happens to the putty.

  
  
• 3 - Workstation 2: What makes some balls of plasticine float?

  experiment "Workstation 2: What makes some balls of plasticine float?"

  The children form balls of different sizes from the two types of play dough and drop them into the water after they have determined the mass with the scales.

  
  
• 4 - Workstation 3: What are ships and boats made of?

  experiment "Workstation 3: What are ships and boats made of?"

  The learning outcome from working on station 3 lies in the realization that hardly any ship floats anymore because the material from which it was built also does. In addition, the children learn to name the materials and can – in a simple context – give examples of ships and boats.

  
  
• 5 - Workstation 4: What does a ball do to the water it is in?

  experiment "Workstation 4: What does a ball do to the water it is in?"

  Here the children find out that all balls of the same size displace the same amount of water, regardless of their mass!

  
  
• 6 - Workstation 6: Comparing two ships

  experiment "Workstation 6: Comparing two ships"

  The children can easily see the reason why the amounts of clay must be the same, even if they reason with terms like "fair". Here, in conversations, there is a good opportunity to propaedeutically discuss the conditions under which scientific experiments become meaningful.

  
  
• 7 - Workstation 7: Launching a ship and loading it

  experiment "Workstation 7: Launching a ship and loading it"

  The children realize that the ship is already displacing water when you put it in the water and even more when you load it.

  
  
• 8 - Workstation 8: When do ships sink?

  experiment "Workstation 8: When do ships sink?"

  The children like to deal with sinking and find at least the possibilities mentioned in the "solution hiding place". Some of the terms mentioned there are new to many students (leak, capsize, fill with water).

  
  
• 9 - Workstation 9: Does water have secret powers?

  experiment "Workstation 9: Does water have secret powers?"

  If we hang the two weights in the water on the "fishing rod" - what will happen? Will there be a difference?

  
  
• 10 - Workstation 10: What keeps ships afloat?

  experiment "Workstation 10: What keeps ships afloat?"

  We will shortly provide you with a description of the experiment at this point.

  
  
• 11 - Workstation 11: The pond skater’s trick

  experiment "Workstation 11: The pond skater’s trick"

  This beetle's "trick" is to use the surface tension of water. As the children find out in their experiments with thin discs of different sizes made of "heavy" modeling clay, we also succeed in this "trick".

  
  
• 12 - Workstation 12: Whose ship can carry the biggest load?

  experiment "Workstation 12: Whose ship can carry the biggest load?"

  We will shortly provide you with a description of the experiment at this point.

  
  
• 13 - Workstation 13: Make your own container ship

  experiment "Workstation 13: Make your own container ship"

  We will shortly provide you with a description of the experiment at this point.

  
  
• 14 - Workstation 14: From dugout to container ship

  experiment "Workstation 14: From dugout to container ship"

  We will shortly provide you with a description of the experiment at this point.

  
  
• 15 - Workstation 5: How to make heavy plasticine float

  experiment "Workstation 5: How to make heavy plasticine float"

  The children form a portion of modeling clay – which is a low cylinder at the beginning – first into a cube, then into a/one... and keep putting it into the water - no body floats. Only the hollow, bowl-shaped body floats.

  
  
• 16 - Notes on conclusion 2: Our teacher does an experiment for us

  experiment "Notes on conclusion 2: Our teacher does an experiment for us"

  We will shortly provide you with a description of the experiment at this point.

  
  

• 1 × Paper clips (100 pcs.)
• 12 × Beaker, plastic 250 ml, graduated
• 2 × Plastic box 140/50/35 mm
• 3 × Metal spoon, 138 mm
• 1 × Cleaning cloth
• 5 × Rapid scale, 100 g
• 1 × Foam insert 1 for 31900, 505x355x45 mm
• 1 × Foam insert 2 for 31900, 515x370x95 mm
• 1 × Storing diagram,int.vers.
• 6 × Graduated cylinder, 60 ml
• 8 × Pastry cutter, aluminium,25 mm
• 1 × Pack. of light plasticine
• 12 × Mat, 200x120 mm
• 1 × Pack, of heavy plasticine
• 6 × Set of weights, 2x10g/10x1g
• 5 × Fishing rod with string and hook
• 11 × Beaker, plastic 30 ml
• 12 × Plastic knife
• 3 × Aluminium cube 18x18x18mm
• 4 × Plastic box 60x60x30 mm
• 3 × Plastic body with hook, 25x25x11 mm, 10 g
• 1 × Tray 510x360x20 mm
• 12 × Dish, plastic, yellow 150x140x35mm
• 1 × Plastic case ca.540x450x150 mm
• 3 × Plastic ball, PP, 25 mm Ø(density=0,9)
• 3 × Wooden ball 25 mm Ø
• 1 × Displacement vessel 400ml
• 3 × Ball, steel, 25 mmØ
• 2 ×
• 12 ×
• 3 × Plastic ball, POM, 25 mmØ(density=1,1)