This week in 6th science, we started our new unit on chemistry, specifically matter. Students were posed the question, “How can I smell things from a distance?”.  To begin to investigate this question, we started by discussing mass and what mass is. Students were then asked to figure out if air has mass. To solve this, students were given balloons. They measured the weight of the balloon before blowing air in it, and then measured the balloon again after it was blown up. All students noticed that they weight of the balloon increased after it had air in it, which allowed us to conclude that air has mass. Moving forward, we will begin to dive deeper into mass and volume. This will help guide us to answer our driving question of our unit. Stay tuned for more!

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