Today hands on science came to school! Well our school. We did all of these cool experiments testing different materials for flammability, insulation, moisture absorption and strength. In other words we were testing the properties of different materials.
My favourite experiment is written below:
Aim: to see which type of paper is strongest.
Materials (all types of paper)
- Butcher
- Paper towel
- Newsprint
- Tissue
- Copy paper
Materials (not paper)
- Spring balance
- Table
Method:
- On the edge of the table hang the spring balance
- Place one piece of paper on the hook
- Pull paper until it breaks measure the amount of Newton’s counted
- Recorded this discovery on a clean piece of paper
- Continue with all the pieces of paper
Which type of paper do you hypothesise will be the strongest?