Y5 Science investigations

Lesson: Science

Class: Year 5 Year: 2024 - 2025

This week we have had lots of fun investigating into air resistance and water resistance.

We made 3 different sized parachutes and timed how long they took to fall. We learnt that the greater the surface area of the parachute, the slower it falls.

Then we dropped salt dough in 3 different shapes (cylinder, cube and sphere) into a measuring cylinder of water and timed how long it took to drop. We learnt that the more streamlined an object the less water resistance.