Tuesday, September 27, 2016
Forces investigation
On Friday afternoon we set up an investigation to see how far a car travels on different surfaces. The different surfaces were: paper, carpet, bubble wrap, plastic compound and the hall floor.
We used an elastic band to deliver the push and used a Newton meter to measure a force of 10N. We made sure that the car got the same push each time.
Testing plastic compound |
Bubble wrap |
Paper |
Testing the carpet |
We had to work together and measure carefully to check how far the car went, then record our results on a white board.
Forces investigation
This afternoon we set up an investigation to see how far a car travels on different surfaces. The different surfaces were: paper, carpet, bubble wrap, plastic compound and the hall floor.
We used an elastic band to deliver the push and used a Newton meter to measure a force of 10N. We made sure that the car got the same push each time.
Testing plastic compound |
Bubble wrap |
Paper |
Testing the carpet |
We had to work together and measure carefully to check how far the car went, then record our results on a white board.
Friday, September 23, 2016
Investigating objects and surfaces
This afternoon we have been investigating what happens when we push different objects on different surfaces. We could choose different things and decide which surfaces we wanted to test. There was lots of predicting going on and some great reasoning from Mulberry Class.
Some decided to try a slope to see what happened.
Others built a ramp!
When we had finished, we shared our ideas about what we had learned.
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