activity1- density demonstration- hallsville（activity1 hallsville——密度示范）.docVIP

Submitted by Susan Robertson, teacher of sixth graders Solon City Schools Solon, Ohio srobertson@ The following activities are from Operation Chemistry and are used to teach the concept of density after the concepts of mass and volume are secure with the child. The amount of work required to uncover the child’s conceptions (and misconceptions) and firmly secure the concepts of mass and volume in sixth graders is remarkable. Yet, until the concepts of mass and volume are held naturally within the child’s framework of thinking, density can not be understood at anything other than the level of