I met a great Science teacher - Julie Pereverzoff - at a recent professional development day at Muriel Clayton Middle School in Airdrie, AB, and the focus of today's Fresh Look Friday's website comes from her.
The Viscosity Explorer is exactly the type of interactive website that I try to coach teachers to find for use on their SMART Board in class.
Students must pick a liquid and then drop a ball into each cylinder to discover the liquid's viscosity. Tamper with the temperature to see what happens when certain liquids heat up or cool off. A fantastic inquiry based activity or for use as a virtual 'lab station'. As always, this site works best when a small group of students get to experiment and record their results while their peers are working on a related activity.
Thanks again to Julie for this website recommendation!
Alberta Curriculum: Grade 8 Science: Unit A, Outcome 3
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I love online experiments like this where students can test their own hypotheses and explore science concepts. It is great for schools who can't afford a lot of science equipment to have online options.
ReplyDeleteWow! This is so cool, thanks Vanessa.
ReplyDeleteThanks! That's a great point Emily - while we preach authentic learning and experimentation in Science, the reality is that budgets can limit the amount of materials purchased to create these activities. "Good" interactive websites can fill that void :)
ReplyDeleteVery neat! I will be sending this to my Science peeps after break. Keep up the amazing job!
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