Design a swim suit!

Imagine if we had to design a new BPS swim suit!


Which materials would we choose?


What would we want the material to be like?


Would we want to have a transparent material or an opaque one?

Look at how we sorted the materials using a venn diagram made from sorting hoops.  Try to look at the scientific words we used to describe the properties of the materials.


The Sunflower group were fantastic because they said "We are not sure about whether these materials are waterproof".  The best scientists ask questions and then try to find the answers.  The worst scientists think they know it all.

Great came for learning your 100 square AND developing your investigative skills!

This NRICH challenge really makes you think about the 100 square.
Try to think carefully about patterns that you see in a normal 100 square...what is the pattern in the first column of the normal 100 square, under the number 1?

This should help you solve it.

You could also print it out, cut out the pieces and solve it like a jigsaw.

Go here to see a normal 100 square to help you solve the challenge.

Plant investigations

We have learnt about parts of plants, how we use them and what they need.

What would happen if we changed the conditions needed for healthy growth (air, water, light, warmth, soil) or changed some of the parts of the plant (cut off the leaves, roots or flower)?

Follow the link to see a copy of our ideas to investigate.

We have three plants. One will get all of the normal conditions for growth, but the others will have something changed (different conditions). We will only change one thing for each plant to make sure that the investigation is as fair as possible.