2S - Science Investigation

Lesson: Science

Today we planned and carried out an investigation about the properties of materials. We discussed the properties of different sports balls and decided how we could test them to find out which one was the bounciest.

We had a rubber tennis ball, a leather football, a sponge ball and a plastic hockey ball to test. We each made predictions and then used metre sticks to drop the balls from 1m and measure the height the bounced to. Mrs Simmons also videoed this so we were able to get accurate results.

We found out that the leather football bounced considerably higher than the other balls (58cm). The ball that bounced the least was the plastic hockey ball. We discussed why the football bounced the highest and agreed that that was because it was the biggest ball and was filled with the most air.