Have you ever wondered why when you dunk your biscuit into a hot drink it breaks. Well, today we found out when we did the dunking experiment. We had to choose three different types of biscuit and dunk them into the tea to find out which was the best. We talked about why this happened …
On Friday, the Doves studied the male and female structures of flowering plants. We dissected a Lily and identified the pistil (stigma, style and ovary), the stamen (anther and filament), the sepals and the petals. One or two groups also thought that they had identified an egg (ovule) in the ovaries.
This week is British Science Week. We began by reading a story called The Most Important Animal of All . When reading, we talked about how different animals bring different things to our environment and the world around us. As a class, we thought that bees were the most important. We labelled a diagram of …
Falcons took part in a live science lesson today. We learnt all about carrots and how important a functioning ecosystem is for things to grow (including the “ewww, creepy” nematodes).
The focus at the moment in science for Doves is forces and on Thursday that entailed conducting an experiment into water resistance. The challenge was to test the impact three different shapes moulded out of blue tack made on the time to travel from the top to the bottom of a container full of water. …