Year 6 - Science - January 2020

Lesson: Science

Class: Year 6H Year: 2019 - 2020

Year 6 carried out an experiment today, to understand how nutrients and water are transported around the body in the blood. 

The children added water to Skittles and recorded as the colours ran. The children understood that this similar to humans getting nutrients from food (the colour from the Skittles represents the nutrients). Once broken down, the nutrients is absorbed through the walls of our intestines into the blood in a process called diffusion