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You have just come home from school. You notice a white, pasty substance
with a few dark colored specks that is smeared on the wall in the living
room. The substance is about 10 inches from the floor.
Consider:
• What senses would you use and what senses • What do you hypothesize the substance could
would you not use? be?
• How do you think the substance got
there?
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You walk into the kitchen and find your cat with the same white substance
on his face and neck! This makes you nervous because you promised your
mom the cat wouldn't make any messes.
You go into the bathroom to get a towel to clean your cat and find even
more of the substance on the door and the floor.
Consider:
• Does your hypothesis change with the new
information you have just received?
You are in the middle of cleaning the bathroom when your mom gets
home! She notices the white substance and a basket of toiletries knocked
over. There's NeosporinTM, CortizoneTM, Vick’sTM Vapor Rub, shaving
cream, lotion, and several tubes of toothpaste spread out over the
bathroom floor. Several of the caps and lids are missing.
When your mom asks what you are cleaning up, you tell her that you
don't know, but that the cat is responsible for the mess. The cat is acting
sick, and your mom seems pretty mad!
Consider:
• What steps could you take to figure out what the
substance is?
Hypothesis:
Substance 1 ________________________
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Substance 2 ________________________
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______________________________________________________ Substance 3 ________________________
______________________________________________________ Substance 4 ________________________
Materials: Substance 5 ________________________
Pasteboard Conclusion:
Substances to test ____________________________________________
Chart to display data ____________________________________________
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Prior to introducing the problem, the facilitator After completing the lab, teams will need to come
should assemble the materials and create the up with a hypothesis of what happened at their
"mystery substance" by selecting one or more of house before they came home from school on the
the materials (mixing, if using more than one) and day in question.
apply the substance to a piece of pasteboard to
dry over night. As part of their final write-up, teams must
determine the possible effects of the substance
When teams ask what the mystery substance looks on their cat. They will address whether the
like, the facilitator will show the "mystery substance is natural or synthetic, and how the
substance". product is made.
WEBSITES MANIPULATIVES
Education.comTM - Scientific Method NeosporinTM, CortizoneTM, Vick'sTM
http://www.education.com/ Vapor Rub, shaving cream, lotion,
reference/article/Ref_What_Scientific/ three different types of toothpaste
Pasteboards
Team Individual
• Teams will submit a completed scientific • Each student will write an apology letter to their
write-up. If desired, the facilitator can reveal mom explaining what they think happened and
the makeup of the mystery substance after all how they will prevent it from happening again.
teams have completed their write-ups. This letter should include their conclusions
about the nature of the substance and its
possible effects on their cat.
• Individual works well with • Individual works • Individual does not work • Individual interferes with
Collaboration group members acceptably with group well with group members group members
• Individual communicates members • Individual does not • Individual does not
well with group members • Individual communicates communicate well with communicate at all
• Individual carries out their acceptably with group group members • Individual does not
individual responsibilities • Individual mostly carries • Individual attempts but attempt to carry out their
out their individual fails to carry out their individual responsibilities
responsibilities individual responsibilities