Materials List:
Thinking Small – Measuring Small Things
https://www.teachengineering.org/activities/view/bos-2612-measuring-small-things-activity
Each student needs:
- pen/pencil
- Thinking Small Worksheet
Each group needs:
- set of cut out Card Sort cards
- laptop with access to the Internet
- digital scale
- scoopula
- 25 g salt
- weigh paper or small weigh dish ( a piece of paper towel can also be used)
- 3 graduated cylinders (10 mL, 50 mL, 100 mL)
- 2 micropipettes (different sizes)
- 4 micropipette tips (at a minimum)
- 2 beakers (one for sharps waste, one for measured liquid from micropipette)
- compound light microscope
- fixed slide with a microscopic organism
- plastic pipette or dropper
- clean slide + coverslip
- paper towels
- safety gloves
- safety glasses
To share with the class:
- laptop/tablet/computer with access to Internet and a projector
- red food coloring
- blue food coloring
- beaker with pond water
- paper towels