Floating and Sinking

This week we have been learning about floating and sinking in our Science lessons. First we looked at what the words floating and sinking mean. We then looked at different objects and the materials they were made out of. Using our previous knowledge we made predictions about which objects we thought would float and which ones we thought would sink. We then tested each one and recorded our results in a table.

Using what we learnt about floating and sinking on Monday, in DT we then designed our own boats. We were given a design brief and we chose the materials we wanted to use. Then we got busy building! Our boats were all very different!

Finally on Wednesday we tested our boats to see which ones floated! We made a tally of our findings to practise counting in 5's, which we've been doing in Maths. We found that all of our boats floated because we used materials like cardboard and plastic.

I wonder what other materials we could have used to make our boats float?