POP POP POP!

WILL THE BALLOON GO POP POP POP!?!?

This activity really got my scientific brain thinking... Is the blue solution really magic?? Is it just the placement of the pin that made the balloon stay intact??

Last class we did more then learn about the power of knowledge and what knowledge truly means, we actually got to be hands on in an experiment where we were given the opportunity to collaborated with a peer. We all will be given the chance next class to show the class what we learned giving us ownership of our discoveries and increasing our chance of retaining the knowledge we learned.

SCIENTIFIC WAY OF THINKING! 

We were able to go through the process... the process that leads students to develop a high level on understanding. A process that as a future educator i want my students to be apart of.

 The process 

    We asked questions- As a class we were shown a demonstration of an ordinary balloon being popped by an ordinary pin. Then we were shown a solution, a solution that we were told was magic!  Was this actually a magic solution? Did it really make the balloon stronger so it wouldn't be affected my the pin? These are all questions and curiosities hat we developed and we want our students to develop in the classroom. These questions that they develop on their own will give them the motivation to try and discover their answers. Once we asked questions we were asked to make predictions/hypothesis's of what we think really happened to those balloons. My group came up with a few hypothesis's

 If the blue solution is MAGIC- if the blue solution is placed on the side of the balloon and pricked with pin, the balloon will NOT POP!

If the blue solution is NOT MAGIC-  if the blue solution is placed on the side of the balloon then [ricked with a pin it will pop.

BUT why did it not pop in the demonstration- This is the discovery that we had to make, so we set up our investigation.

Materials

 

Creating our experiment

With our materials and our scientific brains working we experimented and tested each one of our hypothesis's

OUR FINDING

THE BLUE SOLUTION IS NOT MAGIC!

We found this out through testing, observing, and evaluating. Once we made this discovery we reflected as a group and figured out how we would represent this to the class.

Being a participant in this experiment was really exciting and I was able to gain insight on how to gain the interest of my students. I also found ways to get them motivated to experiment and make discoveries!