Science
How do day and night happen?
Day and Night
We have been learning why some countries are asleep when we are at school! We have learned that when we are facing the sun we experience daylight and when the Earth rotates on it's axis and faces away from the sun we experience night time.
Mind Mapping in 5B!
In 5B we've been trying out Mind Maps as a way of us showing what we have learned in our unit about friction - the notes in pencil are what we knew at the start, and the notes in pen are what we knew by the end!
Which material muffles sound the best?
The children were learning how to ask scientific questions, predict outcomes and record tables of data about their fair test today. They asked the question ‘which material muffles sound the best?’
Science in 5B! Testing air resistance!
Check out our action photos from our recent investigations into understanding air resistance! We tried running with a large sheet of card when it was vertical and wide, when it was horizontal and flat, and also when it was curled into a cone - we made predictions and...
Do bigger ears affect the volume of the sound?
How does sound travel?
We all know that sound travels through the air (a gas), but does it travel through liquids and solids? We investigated how sounds differ depending on the medium (solid, liquid or gas) through which it travels. We then looked at diagrams to explore how the structure of...
Separating mixtures (using sieving, filtering, evaporating and magnets)
May The Force Be With You!
During this half term, Year 6 have been learning about a variety of forces, including gravitational pull and how it affects us. They have looked at the difference between mass and weight and the units of measure for both. They now know that if they lived on the...