Quest 4: Refraction Labs

It is important to note that Quest 4 Posts 1 - 7 is completing just 1 assignment in Google Classroom. The Refraction Lab is one document. The document is broken up into stations. Each station is a post in the quest. You will check in with Mrs. Roehm after each post, but she will not sign anything until the end of the Quest. (Still check in after each post though!)

Q4P1: Vampire Slime

Lab Directions:
1. In Mrs. Roehm's Back room, there is a beaker containing a green goo along with a regular flashlight and a black light flash light. If you want to touch the actual goo, you can. You may touch the goo in the beakers (Sorry, you may not keep the goo). If you don't want to touch the actual goo, you don't have to.
2. Turn off the lights and turn the NORMAL flashlight on. Shine the light through the bottom of the beaker and look at the top of the slime. Then, shine the light through the top of the beaker and look at the bottom.
3. Now, turn the light to the black light flashlight and shine it on the goo (Never shine blacklight in anyone's eyes. It is dangerous!)! Eeeew!
4. Answer the questions for the "Vampire Slime" Section of the Refractions Labs Assignment in Google Classroom (It's under Quest 4 in the Classwork Tab).
5. Show Mrs. Roehm your answers.

If you are absent, you could watch the video of the Vampire Slime below.

Q4P2: Disappearing Color Wheel

Lab Directions:
1. Spin the handle on the big plastic color wheel. As the wheel spins, what do you notice about the colors?
2. Next, get the small color wheel. Hold the strings of the small color wheel so that the color wheel is in the middle and each hand is holding an end of the string loop.
3. Wind the string by moving the wheel in a motion similar to a jump rope.
4. Pull the string tight to get the wheel spinning.
5. Once you get the hang of it, this process will be second nature.
6. Answer the questions for the "Disappearing Color Wheel" section from the Refraction Labs Assignment in Google Classroom under Quest 4.
7. Show Mrs. Roehm your answers.

If you are absent, you can watch the video of the Disappearing Color Wheel Lab Below.

Q4P3: Disappearing Money

Lab Directions:
1. Here is the link for the text evidence.
2. Set a penny on a flat surface (the lab counter).
3. Set a beaker on top of it. Do NOT put the penny in the beaker. Put the beaker ON TOP OF the penny.
4. Look at the penny from the side of the beaker.
5. Add water to the beaker so it is about ¾ full.
6. Set the beaker back on top of the penny.
7. Look at the penny from the side of the beaker. Look at the penny from the top of the beaker.
8. Answer the questions for the "Disappearing Money" section from the Refraction Labs Assignment in Google Classroom.
9. Show Mrs. Roehm your answers.

If you are absent, you can watch the video of the lab by clicking this link.

Q4P4: Mysterious Popping Balloon

Lab Directions:
1. Watch the video below.

2. Answer the questions in the "Mysterious Popping Balloon" Section in the Refractions Lab assignment in Google Classroom.
3. Show Mrs. Roehm your answers.

Q4P5: Vanishing Marbles

Lab Directions:
1. This is the text you will use for the text evidence question after you do the lab.
2. Carefully touch one of the Orbeez. DON'T SQUEEZE!
3. Hold an Orbeez up about a foot in front of your eye and look through. Can you see everything is flipped upside down?
4. Take a look at the Orbeez from the side of the beaker to see what they look like inside the beaker.
5. Set a beaker full of the beads directly on top of one of the "Heart Science" sticky notes. How well can you read the words on the sticky note?
6. Fill another beaker with water. (The cup of beads should be on top of the sticky note still.)
7. Pour the water into the beaker with the beads in it so that the beads are totally submerged (but don't overflow!). Can you read the sticky note now?
8. Step back at a distance and look at the cup from the side. Where did the beads go?
9. Then, answer the questions in the "Vanishing Marbles" Section of the Refraction Labs Assignment in Google Classroom. You will be writing a full CER. Make sure you follow this criteria!
10. Don't show Mrs. Roehm your answers yet! You will be doing a peer review/AI Feedback of your CER for the next post.

If you are absent, watch this video of the experiment:

Q4P6: Peer Edit/AI Feedback

Before showing Mrs. Roehm your CER, you must complete one of the following options. You don't have to do both, but whichever method you choose, you must be diligent about applying the feedback! You may want to consider that on the summative you will not be able to get peer feedback; however, you will have access to Magic School on the summative for AI feedback if you choose.

Magic School/AI Feedback:
1. Follow these directions to get feedback on your Text Evidence, Data Evidence, and Reasoning. You MUST get feedback on ALL 3 of those things!
2. Show Mrs. Roehm your completed CER after applying the feedback.

Peer Feedback:
1. Ask Mrs. Roehm for a paper CER Feedback Form. Have a peer check off the boxes of the rubric for your Text Evidence, Data Evidence, and Reasoning that you have included appropriately. Have them circle any criteria you haven't included.
2. Make edits.
3. Show Mrs. Roehm your completed CER for Vanishing Marbles.

Q4P7: Refraction Art

Lab Directions:
1. This station is set up in the back room. Be respectful while you are back there.
2. There are finger lights and various beakers and containers on the black counter.
4. You will be experimenting with refraction to make "art". You can add water to the glasses or keep them empty - or have a combination of both.
5. In addition, you can use the triangular water refraction chamber. You can take pictures through it. You also can pick it up and look through it just to experiment. Be very careful with this contraption...it is not mine, I am borrowing it!
6. Arrange the cups in different arrangements and move the finger lights around the bottoms of the glasses to see how the light bends as you move it.
7. For more interesting designs - add in another light and shine it through a different cup than the finger light at the same time. Other lights that would work would be the flashlight from a phone or a regular flashlight itself.
8. Turn the lights off for this in order to see the designs more clearly.
9. Once you make a "cool" design of refracting light, take a picture of it and paste it into your lab document under the "Refraction Art" section of the Refraction Labs Assignment in GC.
10. Try a new combination and arrangement of cups and lights. Take another picture and paste it in your assignment. Make sure you have pasted a minimum of 2 pictures into your Refraction Lab document.
11. Turn in the assignment in Google Classroom.

Show Mrs. Roehm your Refraction Art. She will sign and stamp for the entire quest!