Friday, September 10, 2010

Friday, Sep 10, 2010

Collect Parent Notification Forms
Collect Course Expectation Forms
Check Textbooks for Covers

Quiz on Course Expectations

Handed our RA Chapter 1 - due Monday
Handed out flowchart on Surface Tension and discussed several of the demos and experiments

Brain stormed on Inquiry for Magic Jar
Factors that might affect the experiment and how might you eliminate the amount of spill
Size of Mesh
Size of jar and jar opening
Amount of liquid
Type of liquid
What jar is made of
Temperature of water
Material and size of cover
Speed at which you do the experiment

Went over how to set up notebook
Pages 1-6 are Table of Contents in which you put the page number and brief description of the lab/demo/activity
Started on Page 7 with Magic Jar demo

Students made and tested Magic Jars

Demonstrated floating paperclip in water
Demonstrated detergent propelled boat

Demonstrated cracking wrist with plastic cup

Homework: Students are to think of a creative way to demo the Magic Jar
Do RA Ch 1

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