This week, our Year 6 pupils have been investigating living things as part of their Science learning. Using bottles, balloons, water and sugar, they conducted an experiment to determine whether yeast is a living thing. It was amazing to watch the balloons inflate as the yeast reacted with the sugar proving that the yeast was alive!
Year 2 have started off the new term by taking part in a Science investigation! This term we are learning about human health and hygiene and why it is important to wash our hands.
Watch this space for updates on our germ experiment! You may even like to try this at home!
In Science, Year 4 have been investigating 'States of Matter'. We found out what properties a solid, liquid and gas have and talked about examples of these in real life.
This week, we took a closer look at some everyday products, such as marshmallows, shaving foam and cornflour, and used our knowledge to decide if they were a solid, liquid or gas and explained our reasons why.
Later in the lesson, we discovered what happened to cornflour once we added water and thought about other examples when matter might change state.
This week, Year 2 have begun to investigate germs as part of our healthy living science topic. We want to understand how germs and bacteria are spread and whether washing your hands with soap and water really works to reduce the spread!
Method.
1. We placed our unwashed hands over one piece of bread and the sealed it in a zip lock bag.
2. We then thoroughly washed our hands with soap and water before touching the next piece bread and again placing it in a sealed zip lock bag.
3. Our third piece of bread is our 'control' bread. This piece was handled with a glove on and did not touch our hands at all, again placing it in a sealed zip lock bag.
We will monitor the bread for changes and see if we can answer our questions next week!
This first half term in Science we have been learning about the human body. We wanted to investigate what sugar can do to our teeth To do this we used eggs, as the shells are similar to the enamel on teeth. We put them in different drinks (Coke, orange juice, milk and water) and left them for a week. Before carrying out the investigation we predicted what each drink would do to the eggs, and after we looked at the results we wrote a conclusion to explain what we had found out. Here are some pictures of the work we did.
