HOW DENSE IS MR



HOW DENSE IS MR. POTATO HEAD?????

Your assignment:

1) Explain the following concepts as if you were a 3rd grade teacher speaking to a student:

a)mass, b) volume, c) density

2) How does your textbook explain how to find the volume of a strange-shaped (non-rectangular) object?

3) What steps did you follow to find the answer in the text?

4) What does the word “displacement” mean?

5) Go to a search engine on the Internet (such as Yahoo) and use it to look up how to find the volume of objects that have a weird shape (often referred to as the “displacement method”)

(a) Write down at least three different combinations of words you used to do your search with the search engine

(b) Write down the web site address that got you the best answer.

(c) What is the displacement method, according to the website you found?

6) Describe a procedure to find out the density of a whole potato.

7) Explain what would happen to the density of the potato after slicing it in half.

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