This is Archimedes! We have been learning about him and his principle of water displacement. And the children absolutely delighted in putting him in the bath, and also putting blue stones in our pint glass with the black marker. Each time we did this over the week there was intense interest, anticipation and laughter as Archimedes splashed in the bath and water spilled out of the bath. And the stones made the water rise higher passing the black marker drawn on the pint glass.
And the icing on the cake? ‘Eureka! Eureka! Eureka!’ Everyone cheered! During the week one girl came up to me and said ‘Fawzia... when I got into the bath last night the water rose all the way up to the ‘lollipop’ in the bath.’ I asked her to tell everyone in circle, and then followed up with the question, ‘why did the water rise up?’ One boy immediately answered, ‘water displacement.’ Brilliant! Comments are closed.
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