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Why Boats Float: Paddle Wheels and Water Experiments

Explore floating, sinking, balance, and buoyancy with paddle boats and simple science tools.

01/01/1958 | Rating TV-G

Young Experimenters

Why Boats Float: Paddle Wheels and Water Experiments

Special | 16m 59sVideo has Closed Captions

Explore floating, sinking, balance, and buoyancy with paddle boats and simple science tools.

Host Lloyd Liedtke guides students through hands-on experiments exploring buoyancy, balance and force. Learn why some objects float while others sink, how paddle boats move, and how weight and volume relate to water displacement. This episode inspires curiosity and encourages children to experiment at home using everyday items.

01/01/1958 | Rating TV-G

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Young Experimenters is a local public television program presented by PBS Wisconsin

'Young Experimenters' is one of PBS Wisconsin's — known then as WHA-TV — earliest educational children's television programs of the 1950s. Originally recorded on 16mm film — part of WHA's...

Young Experimenters

Why Boats Float: Paddle Wheels and Water Experiments

Special | 16m 59sVideo has Closed Captions

Host Lloyd Liedtke guides students through hands-on experiments exploring buoyancy, balance and force. Learn why some objects float while others sink, how paddle boats move, and how weight and volume relate to water displacement. This episode inspires curiosity and encourages children to experiment at home using everyday items.

01/01/1958 | Rating TV-G

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Young Experimenters is a local public television program presented by PBS Wisconsin

'Young Experimenters' is one of PBS Wisconsin's — known then as WHA-TV — earliest educational children's television programs of the 1950s. Originally recorded on 16mm film — part of WHA's...

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