We have been finding out more about the skeletal system.  We discovered the femur is the longest bone in the body.  We decided to investigate if the person with the longest femur could jump the farthest.  We all measured our femurs with the help of a partner.  Then one by one we jumped! Mrs Hunter had the second longest femur but she jumped the shortest distance-98cm.  One of the pupils with the shortest femur jumped the longest -1m 80cm.  This opened up lots of discussion about how we could make our experiment fair – Should it be people of the same height? Age? Weight?

Meta-skills being used were curiosity and sense-making.