Fun floater: can you help an "insect" float?(hands-on) From: SuperScience | Date: November 1, 2006 | COPYRIGHT 2006 Scholastic, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

THINK: Suppose you were in a pool, lying on an inflatable raft. What would happen to you if the life raft deflated?

PREDICT: The backswimmer is an insect that can suspend itself upside down beneath the water's surface. The insect is able to do this with the help of a special bubble of oxygen inside its body. How might a bubble of gas help keep an insect from sinking?

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