We did a cool investigation in class recently involving toy cars and ramps. We had been learning about forces in science - about gravity and friction. We decided to use cars, ramps and weights to investigate whether adding weight to the cars would effect the distance they would travel after leaving the ramp. This led to lots of predicting and measuring. We measured weight as we added 50 gram weights to the cars. We measured distance in centimeters using long rulers. We learned about keeping some parts of the investigation the same while we changed other parts. We learned that it was important to take more than one measurement and then find the average. Science + maths + cars + ramps = fun learning!
You did almost the same investigation as we did. It looks like fun. What was your furthest distance? (Room 8)
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