The Oily Mess...and Surfactants..NWEA Tomorrow!

Tomorrow morning is our Language NWEA. Please be sure your scholar eats a high protein breakfast and gets plenty of rest! Thank you for helping them perform at their best!

Scholars spent time this morning refreshing their grammar skills, reading To Kill a Mockingbird, and finishing up our math unit on Statistics.
This afternoon we headed outside in the beautiful weather and spent time attempting to clean up oil spills; a very real problem existing in our oceans and water supply all over the earth. Scholars were broken up into groups and given certain "tools" to attempt to clean up their spill. Various tools included spoons, cotton balls, wipes, eye droppers, straws, and napkins. Once scholars spent time trying to solve the problem, we then added a surfactant to break the surface tension of the oil. We then discussed what have been done in the past to break up and collect oil spills in our oceans.