Science Classroom Visit

For my science classroom visit, I went and visited Mr. Paul McMahon's environmental science class. During the class I observed day 1 of students completing a lab exercise based on acid rain. The students were testing the effects that different acids had on effecting the pH of distilled, lake and ocean salt water. The students were using a lab quest tool that digitally recorded the pH as they added acids to their solutions. I enjoyed how Mr. McMahon was more of a facilitator in this sense and was just their to answer questions as the students worked. He had on oddity in the results that the students were getting but just brushed it off and said sometimes it may not work as well as you want it to and you have to be okay with that. 

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