Science week – Paper boats and slime

Today, Gorwood class investigated which paper boat would hold the most weight. Using the same design to create each boat they used 5 different materials – printing paper, tracing paper, card, glossy paper and sugar paper. To ensure the results showed no anomalies, we made all 5 boats and work in groups of three and recorded all three results for each material before working out an average and which held the most weight. The boats held a surprising amount of weight before sinking.

We then used a range of solutions to try and make slime. Using warm water, pva glue, food colouring and borax we tried to create slime. Unfortunately, none of the solutions thickened. We tried to add some more pva glue to help thicken it, but it didn’t work. It may have been because we added too much food colouring instead a few drops as the method stated. It was all great fun trying to get it to work.

 

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