We are kind of stuck in our experimentation so I will update you guys more on this for the next post.

As for the tours, they were really fun and interesting to see other teacher’s experiences.  Last year, I was in BRC for my research so it was nice to go back to that building.  I’m even more interested to see what lessons will come out of this research! I love the curriculum portion of our internship project.  I attached some pics of that day 🙂

This weekend I tried to make polymer bouncy balls but failed and instead got globs. lol  So, it will be interesting to see how I change the lesson up so that I do get bouncy balls.  That way, students can test their products in different ways.  I used 50% glue/water solution and 4% borax solution based on a write up I read online. I used clear elmer’s glue and orange food coloring. I will be trying other ways to try to make the bouncy balls.  If the bouncy balls don’t work out too well then I could make this a different lesson focusing on making “Gak” or “slime”  This is very interesting because it’s exactly how I feel my research is going. We are making samples of our polymers but trying to find the best one for our project.