Fluid Lab

Engineering discovery

Fluid Lab

Today's mission

Fluid Lab: Look and choose

Fluid Lab: Choose the channel that guides water toward the garden and away from the sandcastle.

Notice Try Show
A water table with two channels, garden, sandcastle, and large flow arrows

What do you think?

Grown-up guide

Learning goal

Test how channel shape changes the direction and speed of visible water flow.

Listen for

Water ignores boundaries and always moves in a straight line.

Teaching move

Change one channel feature per trial and keep water amounts educator-controlled.

Standards under review

2-ESS2-1 / K-2-ETS1-3

Educator review is required before verified-release status.

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