Thomas Fitzwater fifth graders explored 
Magical Mixtures this week with hands-on experiments and creative costumes! Students investigated how mixtures form and separate, how they appear in water, air, and soil, and how physical mixtures differ from chemical ones. The students (and their teachers!) also came dressed as mixtures or solutions, prompting the students to team up, ask questions, and use evidence from class to justify how each costume should be classified.
The students rotated through stations led by each of the 5th grade teachers:
Mystical McCarthy’s Magical Exothermia: Exothermic Chemical Reactions
Gritty Griffin’s Great Dirt Investigation: Separating Mixtures & Physical Properties
Happy Horn’s Gooey Oobleck: Viscosity change in a Homogeneous Mixture