This week Year 3 have started their new Dimensions topic, May the Force be With You, a three week science based unit on forces and magnets.

So far we have learnt about different types of force (push, pull and friction)

We made predictions about how far the toy car would travel depending on the different surface (carpet, field, hall floor and the playground). We had to think carefully about the surface and it’s material. We linked maths into our learning by using a tape measure, making sure to use cm and starting at 0.

We then had great discussions about friction and whether a surface had more or less friction, did this impact how far the toy car travelled. We had to test each surface three times to have a fair comparison.