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Simply Tested 8 Food Items

Submitted by Serendip Visitor (guest) on Thu, 10/20/2016 - 10:29am.

I placed 8 cups of food at each station:
1. mashed up beans 2. Nacho Cheese Sauce 3. Torn Bits of Tortilla 4. Fat Free Yogurt 5. Torn bits of Toast 6. Butter
7. Strawberry Jelly 8. Broken Pretzels

Made a new data table for the students to record their test results of the 8 food items, and had the students glue it over the former on page 5 of the handout.

Data table on page 6 - the students were able to use the information from data table on page 5 to show + or - for the food items consumed in the break room by each suspect.

I told the students at the end of the lab that I tested the evidence and the results were..... then they simply matched up to their findings and they were able to easily determine the culprit.

This is how the lab made sense to me.

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