Exploring Our Fluid Earth

This was a fun activity that worked well for each grade level that I teach. The way that it worked best for my students, and for my lab set up was to assign each lab pair just one can of soda and one aquarium. Then, they each did all the procedures with just that one can and shared their data on a 10' piece of butcher paper stretched across the floor. Each lab group wrote their own info down and at the end of the lab we discussed all of their results, having each group explain only their own soda can. The next day we copied all of it it into the charts that were provided in EOFE binder (which I enlarged) and into our Learning Log Journals. We talked about the prompts and Activity questions in the Module 1 binder too. Each time we discussed it we would unroll the data charts and let the students compare their results with that of other students and other classes. I even heard them talking about it during lunch-- so I know they were pretty excitied!