Crew Hamill continued their investigations with magnets by identifying materials around school that are magnetic and non-magnetic. It was interesting to find out that all magnetic materials are made from metal but that not all metals are magnetic!

In our expedition lesson, we began to experiment with magnets, investigating how they work. We identified that opposites attract. This means that when you put a North Pole with a South Pole, they will pull together and ‘stick’! It was so fun to feel the force of the magnets pushing each other away when like poles were placed together – North and North, South and South repel!

Today, Crew Hamill completed their science experiment in which we investigated the impact of temperature on ice. We used the ice we had created in our last lesson and put them in three different places – on the radiator, on the table and in the freezer. We’d predicted that the ice that was left at a higher temperature would melt quicker and we were correct! We checked each block of ice at 30 minute intervals throughout this afternoon and measured how much of it had melted each time. There was almost double the amount of water in the cup that had been on the radiator as there was in the cup that was left at room temperature on the table. The cup in the freezer remained solid! This showed us that the temperature really does impact on the speed at which ice melts so the rising temperatures are a huge factor on climate change.