My physical science classes recently did the inquiry I use for introducing chemistry- figuring out what causes universal indicator to change colors. As usual, this didn't go quite as well for physical science as it does for chemistry- these students don't have the biology background to understand how to create extra carbon dioxide, since that's usually a test the students decide on doing. It may be worthwhile in the future to extend the activity for a day for some guided background research once the class decides to look at CO2.
Chemistry has been doing more mini-inquiries. Tomorrow they get to choose an aspect of ionic compounds to investigate by making their own changes to a lab we start by doing together. With a more linear inquiry like this, I hope to leverage the deeper content knowledge of the members of this class.
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