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One of my colleagues did the same activity with her students about two years ago using starch as one of the ingredients. The idea of doing the same activity with only the blended paper in water without starch is more convenient to me for economic reason. Anything a teacher can save on materials for an activity and achieve the same result is welcome to me.

In addition most of the materials we used are readily available to both the teacher and the students. As a result this is an activity that students can do with their parents or siblings at home thereby making it a good example of “parent involved” activity.

Today we are going to do the same activity using grass as the starting materials rather than blended paper. I can’t wait to see the outcome of this exercise. I'm going to be teaching Environmental Science come September and I perceive this will be a great exercise for the class. I can also incorporate this lesson into my Biology class where my students will study about cellulose and other macromolecules as introduction to Chemistry in Biology.