A New Experiment

I answered the following questions:

How might you set up this or a similar experiment for students in your classroom? How could you make this experiment more fun, interesting, or engaging for your students? How might you design this experiment so that it is relevant to students’ lives?

In my classroom this year, we have a serious popcorn issue. Our school sells popcorn everyday as a fundraiser for the sports department.  Since our lunch period is one of the later ones in the day, the students complain that the popcorn is always cold by the time we get to the lunch room. My students despise this. They want to have hot popcorn, just like the students who are in the earlier lunch periods.

In my classroom, I would have the students make insulators that they believe will keep the popcorn warm. I would put them into groups and have them test three different types of insulation with warm popcorn. I would provide the materials such as cloth, foil, boxes, etc. for the students to work with.

This is the project that would definitely engage the students because they will be solving a problem that they complain about daily. Therefore, this experiment will be relevant to their lives.