Science Methods - Week 13

        Today in class we repeated our m&m experiment from weeks ago but with different types of water. We did this to understand how particles spread out and how the different water affects the experiment. We took pictures at regular intervals to understand what was happening during the experiment.

I can relate this to what I already knew about the experiment and particles because I knew that particles spread out, but I didn't know how they spread out at different rates in this experiment depending on what pieces we use. I have remaining questions over how the particles actually spread out and what is happening for the color to spread from the m&ms into the water, as I still don't understand why it is that this happens, I can guess that it has something to do with erosion and the water eroding the color. I can apply this lesson to my future teaching through the great examples of science used in class as well as the particle demonstration and checkpoints along the way to ask questions, those are all great things for me to use with my future students.