This fall, students in grades 6-8 participated in a unit on bubbles.  We started this unit by creating a small and large frame that could help us explore soap solution.  Students were then asked what they would like to know about soap bubbles and what surfaces they would like to test to see if they were bubble “friendly”.  

As we continued our unit, we experimented making bubbles with different shapes, made and analyzed clusters of bubbles on trays and between trays and cling wrap, explored water rings and “stretched” bubbles.  

              

As a finishing up activity, students linked what they had learned last year in chemistry class to our bubbles class by creating a paper molecule model of water and soap.