Objectives:
State Standards:
Vocabulary:
Characteristic property
Mass
Volume
Density
Materials:
Salt, Food Coloring, 24 Water bottles, Liquid Density Worksheet
Solution 1: 75 grams of salt
Solution 2: 50 grams of salt
Solution 3: 25 grams of salt
Solution 4: 0 grams of salt
Differentiated Instruction:
Students will be engaging in an inquiry based laboratory, were they will be stacking liquids based off of their
varying densities.
Students will be required to stack their own individual sample of unknown liquids, providing each student
with their own individual task.
The students will be engaging in small groups discussions about what they are seeing, and will record their
data into their summary tables.
Do Now (Opener):
As the students enter into the classroom, they will begin to work on their Do Now questions. After this first five
minutes, I will have the students select a set of bottles and begin to give them an overview to the laboratory.
Class
As the students begin to work on the laboratory, I will explain to them that they will be required to get their set of
liquids to stack into four levels. I will not be giving the students any answers or telling them any information on how
the liquids are supposed to stack. The laboratory will be a test to see if they can think though the steps and make
their own changes to the procedure to achieve the desired goal.
Recap
After the students have completed the laboratory they will begin answering the study questions, which go along with
the activity. They will also fill in their summary table based off of their observations and conclusions they have
made based off of this experiment. As the students leave they will leave their answer to the Exit Ticket on the Board
Exit Ticket:
If you had to give advice to another
student who was working on this
experiment, what would you tell
them?
Practice Opportunities:
Reflections on Teaching
Purpose:
Hypothesis
(Claim)
:
Procedure:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Materials:
1.
Red
Food
Coloring
2.
Blue
Food
Coloring
3.
Yellow
Food
Coloring
4.
Green
Food
Coloring
Observations
(Evidence):
Trial
1
Trial
2
Trial
3
Trial
4
Color
Color
Color
Color
Calculations
(Evidence)
Color
Red
Mass
Volume
Density
Blue
Yellow
Green
Research
(Answer
the
following
questions)
1. Compare
the
data
that
you
collected
during
the
experiment
with
a
different
group.
Write
down
your
observations.
2. What
equation
did
you
use
to
determine
the
densities
in
the
calculation
table?
Define
each
variable
and
describe
the
units
associated
with
them.
Conclusions
(Reasoning):