Ms Kelly’s 1st Class ‘Blubber’ experiment’

Last week we learned about Tom Crean, Antarctic explorer. Then we studied Antarctica’s location in the world, its climate and wildlife. The seals, whales and Emperor penguins all have blubber to help them survive. Using butter as blubber the children took turns to submerge one hand in icy water covered in ‘blubber’ and the other with no blubber. Guess which ha