We had so much fun investigating floating and sinking! Inspired by the story ‘Mr Gumpy’s Outing’ by John Burningham the children used their scientific investigation skills as they made boats and tested to see how many animals their boat could hold before it sank. 
 

Firstly we reflected back to our learning about materials and discussed which were waterproof, which were absorbent etc. Then we learned about buoyancy and how the density and shape of an objected determines its ability to float before investigating how the effect of different amounts of weight can affect buoyancy. 
 

Great learning Lower School!