Scientific Inquiry Lesson

This week my students did an activity to show how viruses travel. They were part of a simulation activity. The students were at a "Party". They were going to interact with other students and share their "soda". I placed the students with an assigned partner. they were to write down the names of two other classmates that they were going to interact with. If another students came up to them they had to share with them also. They had to pick up a container off of the lab table. Some containers had flour and some had baking soda in them. AS they interacted they had to share their powders. One person would pour their contents into the other persons container mix it around and then split it into the two containers evenly. As they were socializing they had to keep up with who they interacted with and in what order. At the end I poured vinegar into each container. If it bubbled then they contracted the virus. They had to work with their partner to figure out who had the virus first and the order to which it could have been passed. This activity was easy to relate to a real world scenario. They kids loved it. I played music in the background so it really felt like they were at a party. It was a little challenging but overall it worked pretty well. It still needs a few kinks worked out but I will do this activity again.