During the activity, The Science of a Kiss: Measurement, Mass and Energy, math and science were mixed together to come up with a fun way to teach students about mass, energy and measurement. This activity could be used for all age groups with a little tweaking to the lesson plan. It is a short activity but illustrates what needs to be learned. This would be a good opening to the beginning of a chapter on mass and energy.
Since this was a short activity the masses of each kiss was given to us and we averaged them. We came up with the answer .022 kg. We were also given three heights, .01 m, .05 m, and 1.0 m. We averaged these numbers and got .53 m. The grams were already given to us for the kisses. They all were 9.8 m/s/s so our average was the same. We as a group had to then figure out the gravitational potential energy. We did this by multiplying the mass, height and grams together. The last step of the process was to find the final velocity. We were given the formula- V= Vo+2GD. So with our findings from above we got the problem 0+2(9.8 m/s/s) .53m= 10.39 m^2/s/s as our final velocity.
This was a fun activity that could show students how to get velocity in a fun way. It was very interesting to see how when you would change the height of the drop then the gravitational energy potential would change. This in return changed the average and gave us our average velocity. It would be fun to change the height to higher numbers and see how this would affect the velocity.
In class we learned that the nature of science is made up of all kinds of patterns. We also learned that around us the world of science is made up of all different kinds of patterns. Some examples are growth patterns in plants and crystal shapes in minerals and also the power of ten in science.
So for our lab we made origami snowflakes to show how the world around us is full of patterns. We were given directions on how to make the snowflake. We were allowed to use our creativity to make the snowflake. In the end our snowflake was full of patterns. It did show how the earth is full of different patterns.
This activity would be fun to do with a class. It could be for any grade level. You would just have to tweak how many folds you wanted the students to do. It is a great way to show the students how there are many patterns in nature. It would also be fun to compare all the snowflakes the students make. This would show the students no two snowflakes are alike just like in nature.
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