So in honor of my unguilty pleasure of loving Ke$ha, and the fact that her new book
My Crazy Beautiful Life coming out today, I have decided to share pictures of my Unit 3 Theme - Ke$ha!! I theme each of my units to something seemingly unrelated and make it related. For example - Unit 2 was Properties of
Mater Matter - Tow Mater themed! We talked about how he was made of iron (a pure substance), there were solid and liquid parts of him, that he was magnetic, etc.
Last year I was super busy getting married that I was a bad teacher and didn't make a new bulletin board for unit 3 - changes in matter. It is a pretty short unit - 2 weeks long - and very related to Unit 2 so I left it up. Well - here is Ke$ha'$ Unit - Change$ in Matter!
I started this unit off by demoing a fake burning of a dollar bill (you put it in rubbing alcohol for about 10 seconds, use metal tongs to take it out, still holding onto it with the metal tongs you light it on fire and the bill doesn't burn, only the alcohol!), all my students know the song Tik Tok where Ke$ha talks about her getting ready routine, so we talked about our morning routines and identified all of the physical and chemical changes that happened as we got ready. That is all of the unit we have covered so far but the students seem to be enjoying it!
*EDIT: I did not play my students the song Tik Tok because I realize it references things middle schoolers probably shouldn't know. I just referenced how Ke$ha wrote a song about grabbing her glasses and making sure she was ready before she left the house.*
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