Today was fairly simple.
We turned in our assignments (the poster presentations for the moving dye lab,) and then took a few minutes to record and discuss our questions that the lab brought up. (The only question we actually answered in class was one that each group asked: why did the dye not mix with the oil? The short answer was not that water repels oil, but more accurately that water is like the snob kids at a party: the water molecules tend to prefer to hang out together, which means the oil gets ignored, and excluded. Since oil is less dense/lighter than the water the dye is dissolved in, the dye ends up sinking to the bottom of the oil. Since the oil doesn't "interest" the water, it is also forced to stay in its own separate group, above the water and dye.) Next week we will do another, smaller lab. The overall questions we have after that lab (and this experiment) will be the basis for the investigations we will make using the provided texts and the internet.
It should be fun!
In social studies, we got through most of the second page in the new packet, (Asking questions, finding answers, and recording questions: QAC.) Most of our questions centered around the beliefs of Christianity...this is tough, partially because it is such a big and complicated and interesting issue. It is also difficult because it is a bit of a sidetrack. The important idea is that early Christianity had a lot of competing visions of what the best or true version of Christianity should be. While this multiplicity of ideas eventually gets narrowed down to a single major group with a largely unified vision, the critically important events of the reformation make much more sense if we know about the origins of the Catholic Church...and we need to understand the Reformation to understand the origins of our country.
No homework over the weekend. Hope the dance was fun. Wish me luck racing my super-car tomorrow!