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Floating Pencil

4th Grade Performance Task

Contributed by: National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)

Students observe, measure, and compare the lengths of the portion of a pencil that floats above the water surface in fresh water and salt water. They then determine if an unknown water sample is fresh water or salt water, and predict how the addition of more salt to the salt water would affect the floating pencil.



 

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