Following on from our Animal Adaptation lessons, we explored the benefits of having a layer of blubber to surviving Arctic Ocean temperatures of between -2 and 0 oC.

The Blubber Glove experiment involves first timing how long you can keep your hand in cold (2.4 oC) water.

Most people can only tolerate this for less than a minute.

Secondly, we covered our hand in lard to replicate a layer of blubber.

Again, we put our hands in the water and time it again.

Finally, we used our results to create a spreadsheet and create a chart to show our results.

This afternoon, Mr Hull visited us to demonstrate the app Bloxels which is used to create our own games.