Stellar Science Lessons

Students will visit 8 stations to explore different properties of density. This comes between metric measurement and the density laboratory investigation. May take 2-3 days to complete. Skills needed to be successful on the lab are fostered in this exploration. The stations include: Determine the Density of Clay Determine the Density of Quartz Determine the Density of Water Determine the Range in a Data Set Determine the Change in Density Due to Thermal Expansion Calculating the Volume of a Sph

Culminating lab after a 1-2 week introduction to the concept of density which should include practice, discovery, math problems, measuring, and use of equipment including graduated cylinders, triple beam balances, water displacement, and mass/volume comparisons. This is best used with the density kits found here: http://www.pitsco.com/Science/Project_Kits/Grades_9-12/Density_Kit Students also introduced to the density of rocks in the earth's crust, so three crustal rock samples per group must al