Over three days, students will identify various liquids and determine characteristics of these liquids using their five senses. Students will evaluate different oil clean-up techniques and each technique’s efficiency. Students will explore and demonstrate different clean-up techniques for oil spill simulation in the ocean, self-assess their teamwork skills for step-by-step simulation, and reflect via a 3-paragraph essay.
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English Language Arts — Writing • Science — Science and Engineering Practices
Grade Level
Grades K-2
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Common Core State Standards, Next Generation Science Standards
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With guidance and support from adults and peers, focus on a topic and strengthen writing as needed by revising and editing.
Analyze data from tests of two objects designed to solve the same problem to compare the strengths and weaknesses of how each performs.
Make observations to construct an evidence-based account of how an object made of a small set of pieces can be disassembled and made into a new object.
Use tools and materials to design and build a device that uses light or sound to solve the problem of communicating over a distance.
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