Sound work in Science in Year 4

Today we have been learning about sound: how it is made and how it travels.

Today we designed and carried out an experiment to find out which material made the egg shaker silent with the least number of layers.

Here are our wrapped up egg shakers. 

Can you tell the materials we used?

We used (top row l-r) brown paper, fabric (socks), tin foil; (front row l-r) paper towels, tissue paper and bubble wrap.

Many people predicted the tin foil would have the least layers because you can wrap it really tight and it doesn't have holes in. But actually it made the metal egg shaker just as loud. Our experiment showed that the brown paper had the least number of layers - 7 - and we thought perhaps that is why is is used for wrapping items to post.

Everyone enjoyed this experiment and we are going to explore pitch next week in science.

Forces and Flight in 4C

Today, Class 4C experimented with forces and flight.

We made paper planes to see which could stay in the air longest.
We learned about forces and we also sang a song about forces.
We wanted to show the school our video in assembly but it wasn't working by that time - but now here it is!

Science week in 1L

Are birds or people better at making bird nests?...

1L have enjoyed planning, designing, making and evaluating bird nests to test this question.

The materials they used were leaves, feathers, straw, sticks and clay to make the nests.

They tested whether their nests would keep birds safe on a windy day.

The results were that birds are better at making nests... as some of them blew away but 1L still had fun investigating!

Parents were invited into class to look at all their children's 

Some parents even tried to make a nest their selves :)

Thank you for coming!

Zoolab 6C

This week, Zoolab visited to help us with our science lesson! We held lots of different types of animals and then classified them by their features.

Y2 Experiment with GERMS!!!

We had a Science day this week to finish up our topic of Animals including Humans. Over the last term we have been learning all about the life cycles of different animals and we finished our topic by talking about humans and how to be fit and healthy. We asked questions that we wanted to find the answers to during our Science day, we made predictions then we did an experiment. We wanted to find out how you could get germs and the best way to get rid of germs so that we could make sure we are super healthy! After that, we wrote about what we found out.  We found out that warm, soapy water cleans away and kills the most germs! So make sure when you sneeze, cough or have been to the toilet, you use warm soapy water to kill those germs!!!