Here are our supplies we started with, clear cups, cran-apple juice, water, vinegar, and coca-cola, and peeps of coarse!!
We had a great day on our first day back from Spring Break!! We started our dissolving peeps experiment today. In this experiment we brainstormed some questions... "Will the peeps change colors?" "Will the peeps dissolve in the different liquids?" They did GREAT on figureing out good questions to start our scientific method process, I really think they are getting the hang out it now! :-)
Here are our supplies we started with, clear cups, cran-apple juice, water, vinegar, and coca-cola, and peeps of coarse!! Next, we graphed our hypothesis. We discussed that we all didn't have to have the same hypothesis and that's why we are testing our results. Most of the class hypothesized that the coca-cola would dissolve the peep the best... We will see!! Here is our graph! It's nothing fancy, but they really enjoy signing their name and testing their hypothesis.
Then, once everyone had made their hypothesis we placed the peeps into the solutions. We talked about solvents and solutions. I even did a demonstration with crystal light powder to show something dissolving! It's great to have a classroom with lots of random things. Never know what you might use for science! :-)
And finally we drew and wrote our observations and will do so everyday. This lets the students make observations and compare and contrast changes that have occurred.
Hope you enjoyed this science experiment as much as we did! It's super fun and easy to do! You can use any liquids you want. The fun is just in making observations and just seeing what will actually happen!
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alyssa
3/25/2013 11:55:53 am
love it. Carter came home today telling me all about it. He also felt the need to teach me that soda could be any soft drink. lol. I'm not sure he had ever heard that word before! lol. I'm sure that vinegar smells really good in your classroom by now :) Thanks for all you do!
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Megan Veldhuizen
3/25/2013 12:01:12 pm
Lol! He did an awesome job on our scientific method process today!! At the beginning of the year I always give the science safety speech about how we don't put things in our mouthes, we don't drink any chemicals, we don't sniff chemicals, but if you are told to you use your hand to push the smell to you don't sniff it directly, etc and I told them they could smell the vinegar and they were like wait safety rule! we don't smell chemicals! Lol! So I have to explain I knew it was a safe chemical to smell. It was great! I'm preparing them for middle and high school science lab! :-)
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