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Pour enough milk into the container to completely cover the bottom and allow it to settle.
Add 3 drops of each of the colours of food coloring to the milk. (Widely separated and
not in the centre of the dish)
Predict what will happen when you touch the tip of a clean q-tip to the centre of the milk.
Place the tip of the clean q-tip in the centre of the milk.
Observe what happens. (It's important not to stir the mix, just touch it with the tip of the
cotton swab.)
Place a drop of liquid dish soap on the tip of the q-tip. Predict what will happen when you
touch the tip of a soapy q-tip to the centre of the milk.
Place the soapy end of the q-tip swab in the middle of the milk and hold it there for 10 to
15 seconds.
Inquiry Activity
Educ 4262 General Science
Azza Kayal
Notice that the food colouring streams away from the point where the soap touched the
milk, and the colours in the milk continue to move even when the q-tip is removed. After
a while the motion of the food coloring will stop.
Add another drop of soap to the tip to the q-tip and try it again. Notice that the motion of
the food colouring resumes.
Record your observation and explanation
As homework ask the students to think of what made the milk behave in such a way
Class period 2: Start filling level 2 inquiry posters.
Step 1: Observing and Questioning
Using blue sticky notes students will answer the following question: What did I observe?
(Check poster for answers)
Using yellow sticky notes students will answer the following question: What am I
wondering? (Check poster for answers)
Step 2(a): what could I measure or observe about magic milk or what is going on? (Check
poster for answers).
Step 2(b): what could I change or vary about magic milk or what is going on that may affect
what I could measure of observe? (Check poster for answers).
Step 3(a): What will I change?
Independent variable: Fat content of milk (one example)
Dependent variable: Temperature (starts at room temperature and increase it)
Step 3(b): What will I not change? (Variables I will not change)
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Inquiry Activity
Educ 4262 General Science
Azza Kayal
The location of the q-tip with the soap in the dish (at the center vs. Aside)
Different fat content milk (1%, 3.5%, soy, almond, nut milk )
The amount of soap (q-tip vs. Directly placed on the milk)
The temperature of the milk (room temperature vs. refrigerated, or boiled or near freezing
point)
Different types of detergent (Dawn, Palmolive, Sunlight and Tied)
Different brand of food colouring (McCormick, Queen, Koepoe).
The depth of the plate being used (flat plate vs. a bowl).