Shampoo, Soy Sauce, and the Prince's Pendant: Density for Middle-Level Students | NSTA

Shampoo, Soy Sauce, and the Prince's Pendant: Density for Middle-Level Students

This article describes a series of activities that are designed to clear up common student misconceptions regarding the difficult concepts of mass and density at the middle-level. Concept development, problem solving, design, measurement, and quantitative activities are interwoven throughout these lessons. Each set of lessons is designed to conform to one full cycle of the 5E learning model.

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