Week 13 - Methods 1

    This week in lab section we investigated how we can support elementary students in learning about matter and its interactions, more specifically how we can use a particle model to explain these matter interactions! We started off by discussing the weekly homework with our table members and then with other groups. For the larger chunk of lab, we dove back into the M&M's in water topic.

    During the investigation the focus question was: How can a particle model of matter help us to explain why colors spread out?

    To investigate this question, we drew initial models that might explain how colors spread out in water and wrote an explanation of the model at our tables. We dug even deeper and answered the following questions:

- Does temperature affect the rate of color spreading?

- Do colors spread faster in water that is already sugary?

    After all the table groups completed their investigation and questions, we shared our results as a class. The findings were very interesting. To finish off, we adapted our models and developed a consensus model. After the investigation I am left with the question: would skittles work the same for an investigation like this?