Firstly, we thought about what would happen if the gingerbread man tried to swim across the river, the children made predictions, would he sink? float? melt? fall apart? or successfully make it across?
Once our predictions had been made we conducted our experiment to see what would happen. The Gingerbread we had initially floated but after he was in the water for a while started to get very soggy!
Our next task was to build a bridge for the Gingerbread man. The children were given toothpicks, mini marshmallows and the challenge- can they build a bridge that would hold the Gingerbread man?
There were some very interesting bridges built and a range of successes but it was great to listen to them thinking through this problem, figuring it out and discussing what would work.
I am sure you will agree the learning is clear to see in these photos:
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