Birtley East Community Primary School

Investigating Water Resistance

Published: 3 Feb '25

In Science, the children investigated how shapes of objects travelling through water can effect the speed it travels due to water resistance. The children used a stopwatch to time how quickly the object reached the bottom of the water. They learned that streamlined shapes such as a cylinder travelled faster than an object shaped like a cube. We then linked this to objects in the water such as a sailfish or a rock and thought about which object the water resistance would have a greater effect on.Â