Spaghetti Science!

This term in Science we are learning about materials and how different objects can be physically changed through actions such as bending, stretching and twisting. Today we investigated the material properties of something that was slimy, sticky, bendy, curly and squishy! It was...... cooked spaghetti!

This related to the Year One Chemical Science outcome of:
Everyday materials can be physically changed in a variety of ways (ACSSU018)

The children were very excited for their investigation about the properties of spaghetti.

We introduced the investigation with a song by Peter Combe - Spaghetti Bolognese (one of my favourites as a child!) and the children got to see how the spaghetti was cooked.

 We then got Hannah and Toby to come up the front and using their senses, describe the spaghetti for the class. We came up with some wonderful adjectives to describe our spaghetti!

After all of the children had seen how the spaghetti changed, we then decided to integrate our Art and Science skills together to make a spaghetti hair picture!

Along with our picture, the children had to complete a labelled diagram to show their understanding.

The children loved drawing pictures of themselves and then manipulating  the bendy, curly, stretchy, slippery spaghetti to finish off their master piece!  The children found out later the the spaghetti didn't need any glue to make it stick to their pictures because the materials that it was made of, stuck to the page!

We loved getting our hands dirty in Science!

Miss Prowse