Scientific Report

Purpose: Science can explain how landscapes change

Title: Saltwater and Tap Water Egg
Part Draft Writing Organization
Scientific Question:
Scientific Question

Is salt water more buoyant than fresh-water? Wonder

What is your
scientific
Part 1

question?
Hypothesis:
We think the egg will sink in fresh tap water and the egg will float in the salt Hypothesis
water. What is your
hypothesis?

Our experiment is called “The Salt water and Tap Water Egg Experiment”.
This experiment will help us understand if the egg floats or sink in the salt
Introduction

water or the normal tap water. We wanted to do this experiment because it will Purpose
Part 2

be really interesting whether the egg will float or sink. We really want to find
out whether if the egg will float or sink in what type of water. We also think What are you
that this experiment helps us understand if things will float or sink in each type doing and why?
of water.

 Tablespoon
 Two Cups
Materials

Equipment
 Table Salt
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 Warm Tap Water What do you

 Two Eggs need to do the
experiment?
 A Friend

Step 1:
Fill both cups with warm tap water.
Step 2:
Method

Add a few tablespoons of salt to one of the bowls of water and stir it
Part 3

Steps
really well, until the salt has dissolved in the water.
Step 3: What do you
need to do?
Carefully place an egg in each tall cup.
Step 4:
One egg will float and the other will sink.
The first thing that happen was like at first we had a bowl and it didn’t work.
We added more salt and added more water but nothing happened so we just
Results
thought that the experiment won’t work. Then, Coty and Phi came to help us
Conclusion

because Phi’s Experiment worked out perfectly even though ours didn’t. We What happened?
Part 4

now know that we have to bring a long cup, not a bowl if we are doing an What do you
experiment like this and that salt water makes things float. Our hypothesis was now know?
Was your
correct because of the water’s pressure.
hypothesis
correct?
Why or why not?