Term 3 Inquiring into...

Last week room 4 began their 'Inquiring into..' focus by examining different fibres and fabrics. First of all we talked about the difference between fibre and fabrics.

Then we explored three different types of fabrics by describing what they felt like, what the fabric might be used for and how the fabric could have been made. 

After that we used a magnifying lense to look at three natural fibres. We drew what the fibre looked like under the magnifying glass, described any patterns we could see and guessed whether the fibre came from a plant or an animal.

Once we had examined some natural fibres we looked at some synthetic fabrics and carried out the same process that we used on the natural fibres.

We then looked at some microscopic images of fibres and tried to guess from their appearance whether they were natural or synthetic. We finished by comparing natural and synthetic fibres using a venn diagram.