As we approach the end of our chemistry unit, students have been investigating how temperature affects the time it takes an odor to travel across a room. Through our labs, videos, readings, and discussions, the kids realized that the hotter the temperature of the gas, the faster the molecules move. As a result, they collide more with the air molecules, which causes the gas molecules to slow down and become cooler. The kids have been doing a fantastic job modeling and explaining how this works and why this happens. I have been SO impressed.

Today, students explored boiling point as a property, incorporating what they know about temperature and molecules. After completing this lab, students were able to explain how a specific substance always has the same boiling point, which makes it a property.

Moving forward we will continue to investigate molecules and how they interact depending on the temperature of a substance.

Students will have an assessment that covers this unit the week after spring break.

Have a great weekend!