Materials -2nd Class

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In groups the children tested a variety of Materials. To see which would be the strongest to hold a bag of marbles. To ensure fair testing the children used the exact number of marbles and the exact same size piece of each material. They tested card, paper and tissue paper! They were surprised by the results.
The strongest material was Card!

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