Tuesday, 10 October 2017

Y5 get evaporating 

Today Y5 investigated some conditions that affect the rate of evaporation.

First they got a tissue and weighed it

They weighed another and found they were very nearly the same mass

Then they added the same amount of water to the two tissues

One tissue was spread out and another folded

Which would lose the most mass in 20 minutes

Next we tried one covered in a petri dish and another in the open

Both with the same amount of water

So it was a fair test

Then one in a fan blast and another in the calm
We left these all for 20 mins and then weighed them again to see which had lost the most water

Spread out, not covered and under the fan worked best for evaporation. we did another experiment which showed us that the higher the temperature the quicker evaporation happens.