Over the last couple of months, P7MM have been learning about the Titanic. We discussed how many, many people lost their lives in the water after the Titanic hit the iceberg and decided to investigate how our body temperature affects our ability to carry out simple tasks such as writing a sentence, building Lego and placing pegs on a peg board by completing these tasks before and after submerging our hands in ice cold water for two minutes. We also tracked our heart rate. We had great fun doing this as you can see from the photos and the results showed us that, apart from the odd anomaly, most of us found it much more difficult to carry out these tasks after having our hands in cold water.
