Improving the Play-doh Process

We have completed our S.T.E.M unit with Mrs. Gibson (PACE/Gifted Teacher) and wanted to make sure you could see what we worked on throughout this unit.

It all started with the story, Michelle's MVP Award. In this story, Michelle plays on a hockey team who is trying to think of a fundraiser to go see a famous hockey player.  Michelle's idea of making play-doh is chosen as the way to raise money.  

After reading the story, students got to explore high quality play-doh

and low quality play-doh.

 Then the students got to mix ingredients and make observations about what happened.

Using those observations, they put steps in order for how they would make play-doh.

 After testing and making improvements two times, students were finally on their way to making high quality play-doh.  

Hopefully, your child brought his/her play-doh home and could talk a little bit about the process.