To celebrate Science Week children were tasked with answering:
What material would make the best raincoat for Teddy?
The children engaged in lots of discussion and had time to plan the experiment, deciding on what would make a good raincoat, how we could test different materials and how we could make it a fair test.
They then used their knowledge of materials and their properties to make predictions and give reasons for their ideas.
We were all surprised to find out that paper towels would have made a better raincoat than cotton as the cotton let the water run straight through whereas the paper towels were very absorbent! Most groups decided that tin foil would be the best material as it was waterproof, strong and bendy.