The children have been continuing their learning through with the cars and trains at the moment. In the Science area we have been focusing our learning on ‘force’. The children decided they wanted to make their own cars! We looked out some cardboard tubes, sticks, bottle tops, straws and got to work.

We used glue, scissors and tape! We created some great cars to play with!

The children wanted to race their cars down the ramps. We have ramps with different surfaces to see if that affects the speed of the cars. We have bubble wrap, carpet and sponge on our ramps.  We set the ramps up and started sending our cars down them.

We started giving the cars a little push, a small amount of force, to send them down the ramps. We talked about how far the cars went and what would happen if we added more force when we pushed them.  We guessed what would happen  and tried using more force to see if our predictions were correct! The children thought the cars would go faster and travel further using more force. We decided to check our predictions by measuring how far the cars travelled using different amounts of force! The children wanted to record their answers!

The children tried the nursery cars on the ramps to see if they travelled faster than their made cars! They made observations about what the same amount of force on bigger, heavier cars would result in!  We discovered the heavier cars needed a bigger push to go the same distance!

The children had great fun making the ramps higher using blocks which made them steeper! They had races to see whose car was the fastest! They had great fun learning about ‘force’ through playing with cars!

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