Week 11- Chemistry Exploration

 

 Week 11- Chemistry Exploration

 Learning This Week:

This week in lab we started our chemistry exploration unit and learning about matter. Throughout this class period we engaged with six different exploration stations. The first station my group went to was the M&M's in water, we noticed that the part of the M&M that was in the water started to bleed its color into the center of the plate. Only the portion of the M&M that was in the water was shedding its color. The next station was the plunger push. We noticed that the plunger stuck well to the table and the floor, but did not stick to the outside of the cardboard. The next station was melting ice on three different surfaces: wood, stainless steel, and a non-stick pan. We noticed that the ice melted the quickest on the stainless steel pot, but melted the slowest on the piece of wood. The next station we looked at condensation on a water bottle and what causes that to happen/not occur. Next, we looked at the coke float and noticed that all of the cans of coke floated except for the can of regular coke. Our group was unable to distinguish why this can of coke sunk and the others floated. The final station was mixing 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda into 2 tablespoons of vinegar in a bag. We noticed that the baking soda mixed with vinegar caused the liquid to fizz up and filled the bag up with "air" and the bottom of the bag was cold. Overall, it was interesting experimenting with these stations and asking questions about why these processes happen.  


M&M's in Water

Application to Future Teaching: 

Throughout our lab section, we talked about creating curiosity among students and not just feeding them information. I think that this exploration lab where we were not given concrete answers of why these things happen would be a great anticipatory set for students when starting to learn about matter. In lecture, we explored the main ideas for 5th grade students in physical science and how students should be able to use that knowledge. This is important to keep in mind when developing lesson plans that spark curiosity in students without explicitly telling them information that has no meaning to them. 

Vinegar and Baking Soda

Questions for Further Study

1.) What are other experiments we could conduct to classify what is or is not matter?

2.) How could you do these experiments in a Kindergarten classroom is a safe/constructive way? 

Melting Ice Observation


Comments

  1. Piper PriceApril 4, 2024 at 9:45 AM

    Hey Bailie! I've been following along with your blog for a while now, and man oh man are you doing great! I love your description of the activities and experiments we performed in class. I like the question about being sure to maintain a safe environment in these young classrooms.

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  2. Nicole HomrighausenApril 4, 2024 at 11:30 AM

    I was also wondering how these could be done for younger grades, like kindergarten, as you mentioned. I feel like science is very much directed at older grades, but still important for younger grades to learn. I would also like to learn how to balance it!

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  3. Willow OswaltApril 5, 2024 at 9:50 AM

    Hello! I was also wondering how you could perform these experiments with a younger grade such as kindergarten. I want to work with the younger grades so I think it would be useful to understand how to incorporate labs in these grades.

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  4. Puttin' in the work with Miss. PuttinApril 6, 2024 at 8:20 AM

    Howdy Miss.Kroll!! This work is exquisite :) the melting ice observation experiment knocked my socks off

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