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For in introduction to (IB) Middle Years (Science) Program discrepant events and how I used them with my students, click here<\/a>. Click here<\/a> for the Discrepante Event grading criteria. Click here<\/a> for Discrepant Event write-up format. Click here<\/a> for a sample Discrepant Event write-up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s a listing of all the MYP years 4-5 Science discrepant events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MYP Year 4 Chemistry Discrepant Events<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Magical Candle<\/a>: About gaseous behavior.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Hare Brain Chemistry<\/a>: An observation and deduction exercise on the patterns of reactivity.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Water Bottle Explosion<\/a>: About state of matter, energy and pressure.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Dancing Coin<\/a>: About state of matter.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Uncanny Can<\/a>: About state of matter.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Plastic Bottle Canons<\/a>: An observation and deduction exercise about elements in the periodic table.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. Rubbery Egg<\/a>: About state of matter.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. Fun with Liquid Nitrogen<\/a>: About energy and state of matter.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  9. Blow Hot Blow Cold<\/a>: About energy.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

     MYP Year 4 Physics Discrepant Events<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1. Light Entertainment I<\/a>: About refraction but the simplest of the four.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    2. Light Entertainment II<\/a>: About refraction but considerably more challenging than I.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    3. Light Entertainment III<\/a>: About refraction but a little different from the above two.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    4. Light Entertainment IV<\/a>: About refraction but the most challenging of the four.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    5. Hot Day<\/a>: About energy and energy transfers.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    6. Accident in Space<\/a>: About Newton\u2019s Laws of Motion.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    7. Propelling the Boat<\/a>:\u00a0About Newton\u2019s Laws of Motion<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      MYP Year 5 Chemistry Discrepant Events<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      1. Plastic bottle Cannons<\/a>:\u00a0An observation and deduction exercise about elements in the periodic table and Stoichiometry (Quantitative Chemistry).<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      2. Magical Beakers<\/a>: About acid-base chemistry.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      3. Magical Crystals<\/a>: About ion-exchange\/precipitation\/double displacement reaction.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      4. Cracking Crackers<\/a>: About redox reactions.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      5. Sugar Daddy\u2026with Flare<\/a>: About Redox Reactions and Stoichiometry (Quantitative Chemistry)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      6. Gunpowder: Ideal Mixture<\/a>: About Stoichiometry (Quantitative Chemistry)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

        MYP Year 5 Physics Discrepant Events<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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        1. Bottle and Coin<\/a>: About inertia.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        2. Gravity and the Moon<\/a>: About gravity\u2026as the title says.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        3. The Pendulum<\/a>: About falling bodies.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        4. The Chicken Truck<\/a>: About mass, gravity and weight.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        5. The Falling Elevator<\/a>: About weight and gravity.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        6. Frozen Over<\/a>: About energy and energy transfer.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        7. From Fermi to the Frying Pan<\/a>: About boiling point and cooking.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        8. Don\u2019t lick that tray<\/a>: About energy and energy transfer.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

          Enjoy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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          For in introduction to (IB) Middle Years (Science) Program discrepant events and how I used them with my students, click here. Click here for the Discrepante Event grading criteria. Click here for Discrepant Event write-up format. Click here for a sample Discrepant Event write-up. Here’s a listing of all the MYP years 4-5 Science discrepant events. MYP Year 4 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2507,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2Y7Kk-5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4222,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/4222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/sciblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}