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A student demonstrates one of the activities included in the Bubble Festival Kit

GEMS^® Bubble Festival (Grades K–6)

Visualize that a student who seems timid about science and math becomes engrossed in an activity, then realizes she is doing (and enjoying!) what a scientist does. Visualize that a student with below-average academic skills figures out a new way to measure the height of a bubble, and enjoys an immeasurably important sense of success. Imagine a classroom of students going eagerly from station to station to try a variety of fascinating experiments with bubbles. Signs at each different bubble station challenge students to explore a variety of concepts, but the student’s own sense of wonder and curiosity is paramount.

The free exploration of Bubble Festival allows children to learn some important things that may be difficult for us to anticipate, label, or even detect at the time. In “Bubble Measurement” for example, the approaches of your students will depend on background and experience. While one student may focus on the concept that a bubble can be measured, another may notice a relationship between circumference and diameter. Keeping the open-ended tone to all the activities will help enable all students to succeed. For older students, Bubble Festival is an invitation to discuss and investigate themes such as matter, energy, stability, patterns of change, and structure.

Benefits of using this kit:
	Introduces foundational science concepts that lead to student success
	Strongly aligned with multiple state standards and the National Science Education Standards and Bench Marks for Science Literacy
	Provides clear step-by-step instruction, assessment suggestions, literature connections, and ideas for further instruction

Goals Standards In the Kit Pilot this Kit Support

Goals of Bubble Festival
	Students discover the properties of soap film and a variety of physical phenomena related to soap bubbles.
	Students generate their own questions about bubbles.
	Students devise ways to answer their questions about bubbles.
	Students improve their ability to make careful observations.

National Standards addressed by Bubble Festival:

	Physical Science Standard, 5–8: Properties and changes of properties in matter.
	Inquiry Standard, 5–8: Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry.
	Unifying Concepts and Principles: Form and function; constancy change and measurement.

In the Kit:
The unit kit comes with a Teacher's Guide, a Teacher's Pack containing: copy masters, MSDS sheets, matrix of provided materials where used and materials needed but not supplied, and materials needed for a class of 32 students.

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	Bubble Festival Kit This Kit comes with a Teacher's Guide, an information packet, and the materials needed for a class of 30.

	Bubble Festival Kit Teacher's Guide Additional Teacher's Guides are available if you need them.

	Bubble Festival Kit Refill Pack This set replenishes the consumable materials in the Kit.