Week 15 Blog - Elementary Science Methods (Addyson Junge)

Week 15 Blog - Elementary Science Methods (Addyson Junge) May 11, 2025 Figure 1 What did you learn this week? This week, we explored ways in which we can teach the chemical reaction with baking soda and vinegar (Figure 1). My group and I conducted a few "experiments" to find ways to explain to upper elementary students how this phenomenon worked. We knew we had to catch our students' attention, so we thought about performing the chemical reaction for them. At first, we discussed some ways we could show students how the mass does not decrease or increase, but instead, show them the creation of a new mass, a new material. In this case, we learned that the chemical reaction of baking soda and vinegar makes carbon dioxide, the same gas...