Capacity and Floating and Sinking

In Junior Infants, the boys and girls in Ms Carr's class were looking at capacity in Mathematics and the science of floating and sinking as part of their SESE. They used skills of predicting, measuring and clarifying.

Filling bottles with funnels

Interestingly, they discovered that tall bottles didn't always hold the most water. Sometimes shorter containers held more liquid.

Testing to see if items float or sink

Filling and emptying