Week 13 Blog post 04/23/25

    This week I learned a lot about density of different substances and why as teachers it is so important to understand the difference in material and how it has its effects. We also talked a lot about the density of water and the effects of it on M&M's and the spreading of their dye. Lastly, I learned about how different dyes with different variables of water can really effect the spread of different colored M&M's. My group experimented with Sugar water, but other classes we discussed did temperature. Overall, I learned sugar in water vs. non sugar water causes the dye in M&M's to spread significantly slower, and hot water causes dye to spread faster.

    I related what I already knew about density from the week 12 lecture and also from lab last week. I learned a lot about the difference between the substance and the material and why the dye spreads so much faster in pure water. I related that the density of the water changes with sugar in it. Lastly, I related what I learned to previous science classes that I took in the past because I had already known the density formula, but now I also know the density of water!

    I can apply the activity where my group and I created boxes that had the same volume with different materials to use with future students. I think that this activity puts perspective into how this is possible because of density calculations because that can be very confusing. I think activities like this and using real life examples help with explaining this concept.


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