Materials:
Balance, meter stick, string, 25mL graduated
cylinder, 10 mL graduated cylinder,
notebook paper, H2O, tennis ball, golf ball, 2 marbles, 1 page of
newspaper,
1 die (singular of dice)
Predict:
Which has greater LENGTH, your shoe, a piece of
notebook paper, or the circumference of your neck?
Which has more MASS, a golf ball, one entire
newspaper
page, or a tennis ball?
Which has greater VOLUME, 1 die, 2 marbles, or
3 g of H2O?
Data Table:
| ITEM | MEASUREMENT |
| shoe | |
| notebook paper | |
| your neck | |
| golf ball | |
| newspaper | |
| tennis ball | |
| die | |
| marbles | |
| 3 g H2O |
Questions to think about before writing your
Conclusion:
•Were your hypotheses correct? Why/Why not?
•What is the name of the method for finding the volume
of an irregular-shaped object? Why?
•Could there be any errors in your data?