At Your Fingertips: Floats

Duration: 10

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1969

Creator: Aci Productions

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: Young children are exceedingly fond of water-play, and this film is an ideal tool for illustrating why some things float and others do not. FLOATS explains, among other things, how air in a tightly corked bottle will keep it buoyant, and that in order for things to float they must be waterproof. After exploring what things float and why, the children in the film make their own floating playthings. A floating man is made out of cork and wire; blown-up balloons and wax-sealed milk cartons become boats, as do plastic meat packing trays and styrofoam-based objects like water paint trays., Illustrates what will float away and why, and shows how to make floating playthings from balloons, milk cartons and plastic trays.

Complete Record: Young children are exceedingly fond of water-play, and this film is an ideal tool for illustrating why some things float and others do not. FLOATS explains, among other things, how air in a tightly corked bottle will keep it buoyant, and that in order for things to float they must be waterproof. After exploring what things float and why, the children in the film make their own floating playthings. A floating man is made out of cork and wire; blown-up balloons and wax-sealed milk cartons become boats, as do plastic meat packing trays and styrofoam-based objects like water paint trays., Illustrates what will float away and why, and shows how to make floating playthings from balloons, milk cartons and plastic trays.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.