Exploring Unknown Solids

I love chemistry. Right now, we are experimenting with five unknown solids and observing how they react with water. We are learning about the terms: dissolve, soluble, insoluble, solution and suspension. This is only the beginning of our lab experiments. Soon we will be exploring how these unknown solids react to liquids other than water... and the results are awesome!

Earth Materials

I absolutely love our AMSTI science kits. Next week, we will start learning about earth materials. To kickstart the unit, we did a word study using the prefixes bio-, zoo- and geo- and the suffix -ology.

Next, we dug through Chips Ahoy cookies with nails to simulate how we would break apart our mock rocks.

We had a blast checking out which rocks contained calcite based on our vinegar tests. Rocks that had calcite fizzed in vinegar.

The kids loved it! Might there be some future archeologists in this room?!