Year 5 - Crazy Combustion

Date: 31st Oct 2023 @ 9:34pm

As part of our journey into 'Materials and their Properties', we have been learning about the 'fire triangle' - which explains that a fire needs fuel, oxygen and heat. In today's lesson, we conducted an experiment to show that oxygen is needed for a fire to burn. We timed how long a candle would burn when trapped inside different size glasses. We predicted that the flame would burn for longer in the biggest glass because there was more oxygen.