Making Plywood

Plywood is a manmade wood, also called sandwich wood.  It is made by taking logs to a sawmill and cutting the log while it spins into very thin sheets.  This process is similar to taking paper towels off of a roll.  The layers of wood are glued together and pressed until the glue is dry.  We made our own plywood in class last week, by gluing three layers of thin wood together to simulate what it would be like to make plywood.

   

   

   

   

When we finished making our own version of plywood, we did what all good scientists do…recorded our observations.  We wrote about making plywood in our science journals!