We always start school with students on the day after Labor Day so this year our first day with students was Tuesday, September, 6. I wanted to start with a bang on the first day so I decided to have students experiment with making slime! It was a hit!
Day 1
Students started by all following the same procedure (recipe) to make their slime. They recorded observations about their slime, what it looked like and felt like.
Even when everyone followed the same recipe, they didn’t all come out with the similar slimes!
Day 2
By the second day of school each team chose something to change, a separate manipulated or independent variable than the other teams to see how each variable affects the slime.
We also added food coloring to make the slimes look prettier. 🙂
Students go to have fun on the first two days of school and they got to practice some of the NGSS Science and Engineering Practices (SEPs) by changing one variable to see how it affected their new slime!
Here’s the document I gave students with the recipe that we all started with on Day 1 (click here to view on new tab).
