We have been looking at different properties of materials in science. We conducted an experiment to find out which material would make the best shield for a knight. The children had to test the different shields to identify its properties. They then thought about what properties a shield would need to have and used the results from the experiments to say which material suited these properties the best.

We concluded that the best material to use to make a shield would be the wood because it was strong, rigid, hard and waterproof, The children thought the worst material to use would be paper because it was weak, floppy and fell apart when it got wet,