Exhaustion

The last few weeks have been crazy for me. It seems like all of the labs happen at the same time so I am setting up for one grade level, cleaning up and then setting up for the next grade level. The 8th grade is learning about chemical indicators and equations so we have made bubbles, tried to create a precipitate, made an exothermic reaction and caused the color or some purple cabbage water to change. The 7th grade is learning about physical and chemical change in digestion so we have created glucose models out of marshmallows and chewed them up and we have modeled digestion with livers and peroxide. The 6th grade is learning about elements and compounds so I used legos for that lab and the 5th grade is learning about force so I made hovercrafts for them with old cd's and bottle caps and then they had to make a vehicle with straws, egg crate, index cards, popsicle sticks etc and then create a mini science fair board. I graded all of that this weekend. I need a nap and some ibuprofen!!