We've been learning about mass over the past few days. We had a conversation about how some things are heavier than other things, and conversely, that some things are lighter than others. We considered how certain objects in the room might differ in mass from one another, and compared their mass using our hands. We also used the balance scales and saw that the heavier objects would sit lower than the lighter objects, just like a seesaw!
Today we explored the area inside the heritage building, finding objects to 'guess' the mass of, to then measure using the scales to find out how close our guess was. We started with Mr. Hewes's phone. Imran said it would weigh 5 'teddy bears', Sadaf said 10 'teddy bears' and Toryse said 20 'teddy bears'. The phone actually weighed 21 'teddy bears' and as it was being weighed at the time, we couldn't use it to photograph the riveting and enlightening process.
Luckily for you we weighed a whole bunch of other stuff, and because Mr. Hewes had his phone back he managed to take a few photos. You can check them out below!
Today we explored the area inside the heritage building, finding objects to 'guess' the mass of, to then measure using the scales to find out how close our guess was. We started with Mr. Hewes's phone. Imran said it would weigh 5 'teddy bears', Sadaf said 10 'teddy bears' and Toryse said 20 'teddy bears'. The phone actually weighed 21 'teddy bears' and as it was being weighed at the time, we couldn't use it to photograph the riveting and enlightening process.
Luckily for you we weighed a whole bunch of other stuff, and because Mr. Hewes had his phone back he managed to take a few photos. You can check them out below!
We learned that Asma's writing book had the same mass as 13 teddy bears - 8 big bears and 5 small bears. We learned that 3 letter blocks had the same mass as 6 big bears, 1 lego block had the same mass as 3 small bears and that 1 big bear had the same mass as 4 small bears. We also learned that we just didn't have enough bears, or the space to hold as many as we would need to equal the mass of all of the letter blocks that we could fit into one side of our scales. We had lots of fun experimenting!