Thanks to the glorious Shetland weather, we were able to do all our planned activities today! We started off at the Boddam play park to do an experiment on forces. Then, in groups, we had to show forces at work using the play equipment. After some time inside looking at Electricity with Mr Rose, it was back outside to do a spot of reading before we joined the rest of the school on our whole school walk. A full day of learning and fresh air!
We wanted to test what would happen if we let a tractor run down different heights of slope.
We needed to make sure the tractor would run off smoothly.
On the flat, with no push or slope, our tractor was going nowhere.
We measured how high up we wanted to start our test.
To be fair, we had to let go and not push the tractor.
A little further up.
We watched how far it travelled.
It worked well.
Measuring the distance.
We tried it again, but further up this time.
We had to measure how far it travelled.
We could easily see that the higher the slope, the further the vehicle would run.
How far will it go?
We just had to try it right from the top!
The girls had to use a force to get the spin started.
Denley and Christina had to PULL hard to get up!
Gravity is all around us!
This group had to show using a push.
Gravity pulls us down!
A steep, smooth surface was perfect to get our tractor moving!
We applied forces to make things twist.
Some pushes can be good fun!
This group had to find smooth surfaces that would make the tractor run easily and quickly.
Anders and Ryan were looking for rough surfaces that would slow their tractor down.
Testing the wooden ramp for friction.
P2 read in the sunshine. Lots of them chose to read topic books on forces.
We enjoyed another visit from Mr Rose on Thursday 11th May. He spoke to us all about magnets and magnetism and the “invisible” force they use to attract certain types of metals. We learned the word, “repel” and used the magnets to test out how this felt. We had fun working with our partners and testing objects around the class.
Inara slowly moves her magnet closer until her paper clip is attracted to it.We tested lots of objects around the classroom. We were surprised at some of the results we got.
Today, we were glad to see Mr Rose back in class to help us learn all about Forces. We have been learning that forces are all around us, all the time. We have been talking about gravity and the forces that we can apply to objects to make them move and change. We are looking forward to planning, testing and writing up our own experiment soon.
Without a force, our blu tac balls were going nowhere! It was quite dull!!
A little PUSH could make them roll away from us. We could also PULL them back.
When we PRESSED down hard on the blu tac, the force changed the shape.
Mr Rose introduced us to Stan the stunt guinea pig!
When an object was dropped above the see-saw, the force made Stan jump a little into the air.
When a bigger object was used and dropped from higher up, the greater force made Stan jump much higher.
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