Evaporation Rates

Students collect data on the cooling of water in two different test tubes- one wrapped in wet newspaper and one in dry newspaper. They then identify trends in their data, make predictions, and describe how their experiment is similar to the evaporation rates in the Earth’s Atmosphere.

The task assesses students' abilities to make observations, gather and collect data, identify trends and make predictions, and to demonstrate their understanding by relating the experiment to real life.