July 16th blog

This is our last week in the research lab and Dr. Fromme wants us to try different lab activities that we can use in the classroom. She made several suggestions as to the type of materials that will be accessible for us and still be able to bring in the concept of crystallization in the classroom. Chemicals such as sucrose, sodium chloride, copper sulfate, and potassium chloride would be easy for us to find in our chemistry lab. We can use glass vials, we used wool, cotton, strand of hair, silicone and made several experimental set-ups. I am really excited about what we have tried because we can bring in knowledge from the research lab and connect it to the concept that we normally teach in the classroom such as photosynthesis.