Making Soap Slide

We discovered adding water made the soap slide better

 Making a ramp - the steeper the ramp the faster the soap went

Teamwork made the job easier and more fun

 Using little blocks and big blocks we could make lots of different ramps

Sometimes we lost control of the soap

We made some ramps with plastic

We also had fun racing the soap down the ramp


We had a lot of fun playing with soap. We discovered that soap can slide down the plastic when it is dry but it slides really fast when it is wet. On the ramps we made with blocks the soap only slides when wet. We also found out we could slide the soap around our tables when the table was wet. It was a lot of fun to make discoveries through play.

Note - The classroom smelled like soap for many days!