Mysterious Matter in Year 5!

For National Science week the school celebrated with a science morning. Parents were invited in to help in the classroom. In Year 5 we watched the eclipse this morning, and listened to hear the eerie silence! After that, we were able to start our experiments. We created our own mystery matter with cornflour and water...it's really easy to do, if you wanted to try it at home! We tried to answer the question...is it a solid or a liquid? If you put force upon it, it is a solid, but if left it will be a liquid (for example, if you roll it into a ball in your hands, it will become a solid ball, but if you stop rubbing it together, it goes back to being a liquid).It was really fun, and we loved trying out the experiment!! We did however create a terrible mess that wasn't so fun to clean up! Thank you to all of the people who came in to help us.