Week Fourteen!

 

What did you learn this week?

This week in discussion, we were asked to create a lesson for fifth graders using baking soda and vinegar to help answer a question about matter. Our table group had a lt of trial and error when doing this experiment. Once we finally figured out how we should do it, we put baking soda into our balloon and weighed it and it was 0.561 ounces. Then, we measured the vinegar in the water bottle and it ame out to weigh 3.002 ounces. Then we put the balloon onto the bottle and dumped the baking soda into the bottle and the balloon inflated. The mass should have been 3.563 ounces but, it ended up being 3.507 ounces.

Are you able to relate what you learned to what you already knew?

I was able to relate some of it to what I knew. I knew that vinegar and baking soda would react in the way it did, but I could not fully understand why it weighed less than what I predicted it to. After we discussed it in class it began to make more sense and then it would begin to make less sense. I learned a lot of knew things today based on things that I had already previously known.

How can you apply what you've learned to your teaching in the future?

I can do this exact thing in my classroom because I practiced how to do it to fifth graders today. I think that I would just need to gather more information on it so that I can answer and questions that my students have and I need to use container that doesn't expand much.=

Comments

  1. Andrea HuedepohlDecember 11, 2024 at 2:58 PM

    Hey Addy, I also plan to do the activity in my future classroom. Discussions really help me as well!

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  2. Leah FloydDecember 12, 2024 at 1:46 PM

    Hi Addy! I also think this would be a great lesson to do with students. Great job!

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