Helicopter Test Flights

This term we have been studying the effects of Push and Pull forces in science.  We ave been looking at forces that effect the movement of everything like gravity, the push of air and the push of water.  This has invloved a lot of ecperiments with 2H predicting many otcomes and observing forces at work.  We have drawn a lot of push and pull force arrows on our diagrams to show forces at work.

This week was our favourite experiment.  The helicopter test flight.  We made paper helicopters and did a lot of test flights.  We talked about the force of gravity pushing the helicopters to the ground, and the force of air pushing upwards, slowing the helicopters fall.

Then we took our helicopters and shortened their wings to see if this affected the force and the speed with which the helicopter fell to the ground.  We had to make sure we kept everything else about our test flight the same as our original test flights.

We planned our investigation carefully making sure we only
changed the thing we were testing.

Then we predicted what would happen and observed
the test flights to see if our preditions were correct.

It was great to see that all the learning we have completed has helped us to really understand what is happening when push and pull forces are at play!

Zippep's Astro Circus!

Hello Year 2.

Here is the link to Zippep's Astro Circus.

Parents,

This program is designed to teach young children about Cyber safety.  You will also need to register for your child to play the game online.

Enjoy!

Eat a Rainbow Everyday!

To play the YouTube Clip "Fit Kids Eat a Rainbow Everyday", click here.