ABSTRACT
This chapter is designed to encourage creativity and lateral thinking as children decide the best way to measure and record observations. Children design a shape from Plasticine to find out what affects a splash in diving. In the Olympic Diving Championships, the aim is to find out what affects the splash. Air resistance acts on the model diver as it falls through the air. When the diver enters the water, it experiences water resistance. The splash is a disturbance caused by a solid object suddenly hitting the surface and transferring some of its energy to the water. Water is displaced by the object in the container. Show children video clips of diving championships to illustrate an application of this idea. Collect other onomatopoeic words and use some of them to 'paint a word picture' with words and sounds in a poem. Shape poems work well and can be used to make a great wall display.
