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issue #, date Stephanie Kaylor
SCIENCE WITH SYCAMORE
The Salt Volcano The Materials: 1 plastic cup, cup of water, cup of vegetable oil, table salt
February 18, 2014 Station Overview
Today in science the 3rd grade students of Sycamore School worked through multiple experiments with the help of my Butler University College of Education Block B classmates, and I, Stephanie Kaylor. We came to Sycamore School to teach and experience science lessons with students and learn more about their thinking and ideas. Each experiment either pertained to density of a certain liquid and/or object and weight in water. For an hour and a half students rotated through the following five stations: Penny Boat, Layered Liquids, Coke/Diet Coke Density, Bubbles Inside Bubbles and Salt Volcano. The following were essential questions for each station: Penny Boat: How many pennies can your aluminum foil boat hold before it sinks? Layered Liquids: Can you figure out the order in which the liquids will layer in based on their density?
The Salt Volcano experiment was used to show students how a substance affects the density of salt as it travels through water and oil. My partners and I taught five different groups of students from Mrs. Wrights class about the density of salt and how it changes as it passes through the oil into the water below. When the students arrived at the station they were eager to get started on learning what the salt volcano was about. We asked them to predict what would happen when we added salt to the oil and water. Most students thought it would explode like a volcano was erupting. With this being a studentcentered experiment, the students did all of the hands-on work with little help from the Butler teachers. First they mixed the water and oil and watched how it separated based on density. Then they each added salt in order to observe what happened. The students had many spiraling questions and often wondered how the bubbles at the bottom were formed. The students wrote down what they observed and what they learned next. A large number of students made the connection of this experiment forming what looked like a homemade lava lamp. The students were fascinated with this experiment and I heard so many amazing comments about it as well. One student noticed that the salt became coated in oil as it sunk, went to the bottom of the water because salt is more dense and then floated back to the top when globs of oil joined each other in the water. Another student exclaimed that [she] inquired that the salt was more dense than the
Coke/Diet Coke Density: Do you think the sodas will float or sink? Why do you think that? Bubbles Inside Bubbles: Can you blow a bubble inside of a bubble? Why do you think this is possible? Salt Volcano: Why do you think this reaction occurred when mixing the materials? Which material is most dense?
