Angela put some boats in the water tray and asked the children a question:  “How can we make the boats move without touching them?”

There were lots of ideas:

Lara:  “We could wave things at them!”    Nina:”They will float themselves!”

Ava:  “I don’t know ………maybe blow them!”

Hollie:  “We could blow them!”  Ailsa:”We could use straws”

James:  “You touch them!”

First we used our mouths to blow the boats.  Lara’s boat won the race!

 

Ailsa suggested we use a straw.  We raced our boats using a straw this time.  Ailsa thought blowing with her mouth was better but Lara thought the straw worked best.

  

Euan came over to see what we were doing.  He said,” You need a big puff to make it move it move!”

Angela then asked him “What else could move the boats?”

Euan thought hard, then said “Maybe trees – trees give you oxygen!”  Euan then tried to blow the big boats and discovered that the little boats moved faster.

We are going to continue experiments with moving air throughout the week and look at what air power can do.