The following activities are included in this packet:

1. Vocabulary Acquisition

- Students will use words, pictures, and definitions to learn vocabulary.

2. Solid Density

- Students will predict the density of 6 objects

- Students will observe whether the objects sink or float.

- Students will create a table of their results.

- Students will write an open-ended response (OER) explaining the lab.

3. Liquid Density

- Students will observe what happens when three liquids are poured into a jar.

- Students will diagram the experiment.

- Students will write an OER explaining the lab.

4. Solutions & Density: Part 1

- Students will learn about altering density by adding salt and water to a pitcher.

- Students will chart their results.

- Students will write an OER explaining the lab.

5. Solutions & Density: Part 2

- Students will learn that solutions can have different density despite having the
same volume and mass.

- Students will write an OER explaining the lab.

6. Ping-Pong Writing Template

- Students will learn how to put together an expository paragraph.

- Students will learn to write:

a topic sentence

examples from the lab experiment

analysis that explains the examples

a wrap-up statement that concludes the paragraph