Here are some fun underwater activities to try out with your students, LEGOs, and water.
We are in the early stages of developing activities... please send any comments or new activity
ideas to morgan.hynes@tufts.edu. Enjoy!

Workshop presentation

Boat that floats (.doc)(.pdf)	Challenge your students to build a LEGO Brick structure that will hold the most weight afloat.
Propulsion: prop size (.doc)(.pdf)	Explore how propeller size impacts the speed of your LEGO boat.
Propulsion: gears (.doc)(.pdf)	Explore how gear up/down your propeller impacts the speed of your LEGO boat.
Dizzy Boat (.doc)(.pdf)	Teach your students concepts of torque and buoyancy with a dizzying LEGO boat exercise.
Have a ballast (.doc)(.pdf)	Challenge your students to create a LEGO sub that dives and surfaces using LEGO pneumatics.
Slalom boating (.doc)(.pdf)	Challenge your students to build a remote LEGO boat that will navigate through a slalom course.
Automated buoy (.doc)(.pdf)	Have your students build a data collection buoy to track the temperature of your body of water.
Depth chart (.doc)(.pdf)	Have your students build a tool to measure the depth of your underwater terrain.
Turbidity sensor (.doc)(.pdf)	Have your students build a tool to measure the turbidity of a water sample.