Exploring Middle School Experiences and Engaging with Science Labs
This assignment encourages students to reflect on their middle school experience and provide feedback about their favorite and least favorite aspects of class. It suggests improvements and asks for suggestions. Additionally, students participate in a hands-on science lab involving paper towels and cups to explore concepts of absorption and buoyancy. They record predictions, observations, and results, enhancing their understanding of scientific principles through practical experimentation. The reading assignment focuses on Chapter 2, Section 1, with specific questions for students to answer.
Exploring Middle School Experiences and Engaging with Science Labs
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DO NOW • How do you like middle school and this class? What do you not like? What could be better? Do you have any suggestions? • Write at least 3-5 sentences • Staple all of your DO NOW’s together and put them at the end of your table. (You should have 9 total)
Cup & Paper Towel Lab • Get out a piece of paper • You will be putting a paper towel in the bottom of a cup, turning the cup upside down and putting it completely under water. • Write on your paper what you think will happen.
Cup & Paper Towel Lab • One table at a time, go to the aquarium in the back • Ball up a paper towel and put it in the bottom of cup • Turn the cup upside down and put it completely underwater • Take it out and see what happened • Record on your paper your results • Next, we will use a cup with a hole in it • Write on your paper what you think will happen
Cup & Paper Towel Lab • One table at a time, go to the aquarium in the back • Ball up a paper towel and put it in the bottom of cup • Turn the cup upside down and put it completely underwater • Take it out and see what happened • Record on your paper your results • Why do you think your results happened?
Reading • Read Chapter 2, Section 1 (pages 38-42) • Answer the questions on page 42 on a piece of paper
For Tuesday • Finish Chapter 2, Section 1 Questions