Science at last

Hi everyone
The students are very excited that we have started our Inquiry unit about the Scientific Method. As part of this we are undertaking a lot of practical hand on experiments, practicing each step of the process to become really familiar with it.
This week has been about experimenting with water rockets. The students built some understanding around pressure and the properties of air and water.
The fun part of course was building and testing of the rockets. Some students wanted to find out if putting different amounts of water in the rocket would effect how high it would fly and others concentrated on whether more air pressure was better.
Mixed results were obtained and the students were given the opportunity to modify and try again.

Here are some of our photos;