Friday 25 October 2013

Floating and Sinking ... take two!

 

After using clay to design a boat that floats, Year Five investigated how design a boat which could hold increasing amounts of passengers (marbles!).
 









 
Here are some of our boat designs...
 
Which one do you think would be most successful? Why?
 


 Watch what happens as we add passengers to James and Harry's boat!



 Uh oh! What do you think caused this boat to sink?

 After testing our designs, we had some ideas about what would help our boats hold more passengers. Next lesson, we experimented with adding compartments to help our boats stay balanced.

What do you think the result was?

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