In connecting reading, math, science and writing together, we have been spending the last week reading informational text about food preservation. Today we read part of a manual about a food dehydrator, and tomorrow we begin our experiment comparing different dehydration methods (solar oven, food dehydrator, and air drying apples). Math will be connected through science as we weigh the apple slices for each method to the hundredth of a gram before, during, and at the end of each method of experiment. Tables and graphs will be developed as well as we collect and analyze data. A brainstorming session took place today regarding their writing topic, where they have to choose which mission to Mars they want to be on and which method of food packaging, as each as advantages and disadvantages. Writing will officially begin on this topic Thursday.
