6th graders spent the past few weeks studying different methods of displaying data. At the end of the unit, they created four of their own surveys each to collect different types of data. They then constructed four different displays for the data they had collected from their surveys.
Radioactive Dating Lab
LOTS OF PENNIES - 100 TO BE EXACT! Students placed their pennies (radioactive material) in their shoe boxes.
  THEN, SHAKE, SHAKE, SHAKE! (thousands of years are passing)
Open the box and something amazing has happened - some of our radioactive material has become stable (the pennies landed on tails).
Count and remove the stable material to determine how much radioactive material still is contained in the box.
Repeat the process until there is no radioactive material (all the pennies have been removed from the box after becoming heads up). |
CELL PROJECTS
WONDERFUL CREATIVITY
  
There were a few skeptics when it came to entering the lean-to. Everyone went in and actually enjoyed the experience.
 A great job accomplished by all the sixth graders.
The first team to start their fire.
Life Science - Chemical Change Lab
Students completed their first group lab about chemical change. Chemical changes release energy, often as heat.
With the following materials, the experiment began.
Chicken Liver Potato Hydrogen Peroxide
Peroxide was measured (not as easy as you think - often too much was poured)
In separate trials, potato and liver were placed in the peroxide.
THEN CAME THE "BORING" PART - RECORD TEMPERATURE CHANGES EVERY 30 SECONDS FOR FIVE MINUTES.
ONLY THE LIVER PRODUCED A REACTION THAT WAS FUN TO WATCH!
FINAL RESULTS WERE GRAPHED AND COMPARED. |
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