Thanks to an excellent suggestion from my carpool driver (Emma, you know who are) I have come up with a better sponge activity and a way to display my EQ.
Originally, the class was going to be divided into physicist groups (i.e., the Planck group, the Einstein group, the Heisenberg group etc.) Now, I am planning on dividing them into particle groups. Now I can incorporate my other passion (knitting) into my presentation as well-on each desk will be a knitted plushie particle with a card that has it's name, spin, charge, and mass, as well as my essential question. For my sponge activity, I will have each group look up what their particle does and an interesting fact about it and then share out to the class.
So far, I'm planning on having seven groups (6 of 4 and 1 of 5) with the following particles:
Higgs Boson (important to my presentation that people understand how this one works)
Photon
W Boson (important for my third answer)
Z Boson (also important for my third answer)
Gluon
Top Quark (also important to my presentation for my second answer)
Muon (discovered by a cloud chamber, which is my activity)
I will post pictures as I knit these little fellows.
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