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Sylvana Sproule
Cohort 2
Lesson Title: Density and Lava Lamps
2016
Grade: 5/6 Name: Sylvana Sproule
TEACHER
Differentiated Instruction
Students that have a hard time writing can draw the
experiment and explain it in diagrams and pictures.
STUDEN
TS
Introduction: (7min)
Review: What is the difference between solutions and mixtures?
(In mixtures all parts of visible, in solutions, all parts are
blended.)
Get students to write the title What is Density? into their
books.
Body: (20)
Get students to write the definition of density in their notebooks.
(The amount of molecules in a specified space. It is a way to
measure how compact an object is)
Tell them they can refer back to and think about density as they
watch the experiment
Hook: Ask students to guess what is under the blanket with 3
hints (it has to do with water, its edible, and colorful)
Have the lava lamp covered with a cloth and get students to
drum roll to unveil the experiment.
Explain that the water has sunk to the bottom of the lava lamp
because it is denser than the oil.
Share with students that today we are going to learn if oil and
water can mix together
Write in notebooks to predict: Do you think that water and oil
can mix together?
Drop food coloring into the lava lamp, and explain that because
the food coloring is water based it sinks through the oil and to
the bottom with the water.
Explain that in order for the water to travel up it needs help
from our friend chemical reaction (alkaselzter tablets).
Drop the chemical reaction in, and shut off the lights.
Have many alkaselzter tablets ready so that students can try as
well.
Talk about how the water will only travel up to the oil with some
help because it is a lot denser than the oil.