A little bit about the word.

Submarine

Sub - under (from the Latin)

Marine - sea

How many other words can you find that have a prefix of - sub

Humans have been trying to sail under the sea since 1580. William Bourne an English innkeeper was the first to describe a submarine.

Submarines somehow can go below the sea and then come back up again. How? See if you can understand the description on the link above.

Don't forget - Ask if it doesn't make sense and see if we can explain it, so it does.

Can we make a model of how a submarine works?

Submarines

Find out more about submarines.

History of the submarine.

This website has an animation which explains how modern submarines go below the surface and rise again.

How submarines dive and surface.

One of the most famous English submarines was the .....Yellow Submarine

Ask Mr Ball or Mr Doras to play you the song or if your lucky the whole film.