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Mr. Archimedes' Bath.
Allen, Pamela. New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, 1980.
Introduces buoyancy by telling a story about Archimedes taking a bath with his friends. For children.

Tell Me How Ships Float.
Willis, Shirley. New York, NY: Scholastic Library Publishing, 2000.
Explores floating and sinking and Archimedes' principle of buoyancy with simple experiments. For children.

Archimedes of Syracuse
www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Archimedes.html
Provides a biography of Archimedes, mostly told in the words of Plutarch, a historian who lived in Greece in about A.D. 100. Provides a hands-on buoyancy activity. For all ages.

Simple Machines

Most early inventions were based on simple machines-tools that make work easier. Simple machines help us lift things, pull things, split things, fasten things, and cut things. There are six basic simple machines: the lever, the wedge, the pulley, the wheel and axle, the inclined plane, and the screw. Archimedes used combinations of these machines to create such devices as Archimedes' Claw, a catapult, and Archimedes' Screw. If you look around your home, school, and town, you will discover many other machines and devices that are versions of the six simple machines.