Understanding acids, bases, and their interaction is fundamental to the study of chemistry. In this session, students at VMHS used a home-made pH indicator solution (red cabbage juice) to test and identify the acidity level of common things like ammonia, vinegar, laundry detergent, juices, milk, and Coke. After using their […]
Monthly Archives: February 2017
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Can you build a bridge out of newspaper? Our students were challenged to design a bridge using only newspaper and tape and then test their creations by seeing how much weight it could hold. Did it collapse? That’s OK — just back to the drawing board to make improvements […]
At Vicente Martinez High School, we presented several engineering challenges that allows students to solve problems and create solutions. In the first session we asked our students to create a “Marble Wall” — a vertical maze that uses gravity and inertia to move marbles from the start to the end. […]