This week saw the final session of the y5/6 STEM Club block. The pupils have completed eight activities towards their Crest Award and will be receiving a certificate for their hard work. Tonight the pupils were tasked with Investigating how to protect Humpty when he falls off the wall. The pupils worked in pairs and had 20 tokens to ‘buy’ suitable materials to make their protective layer for Humpty. We revisited the properties of materials from previous learning in the science curriculum and the pupils debated the merits of using cotton wool, foil, paper roll, bubble wrap or lolly sticks. The pupils could only purchase certain amounts of each material. In order to ensure a fair test, all material except the lolly sticks were the same size.
After the pupils had made their choices and arrange their protective layer around Humpty, (an unboiled egg), they popped Humpty into a Ziplock bag just in CASE their protective designs weren’t as successful as they hoped. In the hall, the pupils dropped their bags from shoulder height. Unfortunately all of the Humpties cracked on the first attempt. They were then allowed a second attempt and they were allowed to use as much of the remaining materials as they wanted to. Not very scientific this time, but it was certainly fun. This time two out of the three Humpties survived!
