Monday, October 4, 2010

Unit 2 Provocation!

On Thursday afternoon, we began Unit 2 with a BANG (or rather more like a FIZZ)! To begin looking at our central idea, "Matter can be transformed," students were invited to watch a science experiment. To begin, students were asked if they thought we could combine Diet Coke and Mentos. Students were then asked to think of a hypothesis (prediction) of what they thought would happen when the two materials were combined. We came up with different amounts of Mentos which we could add to the Diet Coke to see if there were different results. After that, we recorded our materials and then watched to see what would happen next...



After the experiment, we wrote up the steps (procedure) for what we did and we talked about WHY we thought that had happened. We also discussed ways in which we could test again and what we thought would happen next time.

8 comments:

  1. it was really exciting and i liked it.
    chaeeun

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  2. The experiment was fun!I loved watching the cola shoot out of the bottle!
    Hana

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  3. It was fun. The coke shoot out from the bottle!
    saki

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  4. I love coke and mentos experiment. The coke shoot up out of the bottle! It very fun to do the coke and mentose experiment!saki

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  5. Dear Mrs Brown I liked this experiment I thought last night that we could do some more experiment.

    Theo

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  6. After the experiment we all looked at the disolved Mentos in the cola.
    Hana

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  7. Mrs. Michael said, "How cool to see you on film,Grant,asking great questions during an experiment. You are going to be my little scientist! Way to go!" Fun, fun experiment, Mrs. Brown!

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  8. The coke and mentos experiment was great! The coke shoot out from the bottle when Mr.Driver put the mentos into the bottle! It was so fun!


    Saki

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