Science Week

Our focus for Science week was ‘Materials’. During the week we planned and carried out two investigations. Our first task was to find out which material was the most absorbent. We worked together in groups to plan our experiment. We had to make sure our test was fair and we also had to make predictions. Mrs King was pleased that we didn’t spill too much water in the classroom! Most groups found that the kitchen roll and the J-cloth were the most absorbent and the paper and the napkin were the least absorbent.

For our second investigation we tried to find out which shop carrier bag was the strongest. We needed a lot of ‘strength’ for this test! We counted how many tins of food we could put into each bag before it would break. The bags proved to be much stronger than we thought. Only the blue local shop bag broke after 21 tins. However, when we examined all the bags after the test, the Morrisons bag looked exactly the same. Well done Morrisons.

Also this week we have been having lots of fun investigating electrical circuits with Mrs Jones!