Exploring Our Fluid Earth

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is there a word doc or pdf of the thermohaline activity that was demonstrate during our follow up. I want to do this activity with my class and want an electronic copy of the activity so the students have a hand out to follow along with.

Teaching Science as Inquiry (TSI) Lesson Plan
Module 1: Physical Aquatic Science

Name: Kevin Johnson

Activity: Soda and Scientific Reasoning

Why did you choose to do this activity?
When I did the activity I enjoyed how it made me think about what molecules must be dissolved into the water, and therefore fitting in-between the water molecules, that would affect the density of the liquids in the cans. I thought it really helped me to think about density at the molecular level.

I used this activity to wrap up the Density Bags lessons and to talk about gravitational force and currents. They got the gravitational force part but not too sure the current part stuck with them. I have a younger group so may have been too far of a stretch for them yet.

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Here's my Draw A Scientist Lesson Plan.

I presented this at the meeting.

I did this lab with middle school students today. We prepped the clear plastic cups with push pin holes and heated the salty water with a microwave. I used ice water for the fresh water. The results were vivid. I made the salty water red and the freshwater blue. The students were surprised that the drawings of their hypothesis were a murky purplish whereas the actual results were layers of red, white, and blue... success. These new ideas for labs are helping to make connections to oceans for the students.

am I uploading the Lesson plan I filled out, the Module 1 Lesson Plan that came attached to Joanna's email? If so, why wont it let me do that? I really dislike working with websites. That is not a question.

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Fan, the template doesn't ask us to reflect on our student work. Do you want us to write reflect on our student work as well? Or, are we only supposed to reflect on our own lessons and not the student work?

Hi Fan,
The November date is that when our portfolios are due for you to check or for us to submit to the DOE? Can we just follow the template and fill in the blanks with our info?? Also, I cant seem to find the progress list.

Several people from my session asked for the lab writie-up I created for the soda lab - here it is

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Here is my lesson plan for the Practices of Scientists Activity.

uploaded my stuff in Kevin's thread... should I redo it?

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My students enjoyed this activity and I believe that it helped them to really identify as scientists themselves. It was a great segway into using an expensive scientific tool - the microscope!