Introduction
It's time to do your daily chore of washing the dishes. You have quite the options when it comes to dish soaps. You could to use Dawn, Joy, Palmolive, or Seventh Generation. You want your option to create the most amount of bubbles so your dishes are shiny clean. Which one will you choice?
Task
To identify which option is best for you to use, you will run the same test on each soap. You will need four same size bowls, a measuring cup, a cup of water, a table spoon, a stir stick, a ruler and a paper towel to wipe up excess soap. After mixing up the soap in each bowl, you will measure the amount of bubbles that have been produced. Which ever bowl has the most bubbles will be the soap that is best for you to wash your dishes.
Process
Follow to insecure correct results
Here are some websites that might help you explore more about soap:
https://wonderopolis.org/wonder/why-does-soap-make-bubbles
https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-dish-soap/
1) Set out one of the bowls on a table
2) Measure out a cup of water. Once measured pour the cup of water into the bowl.
3) Using your tablespoon, measure out your chosen option of dish soap. Once a tablespoon of the dish soap has been measured, add the soap to the water in the bowl.
4) Using your stir stick, stir the soap and the water for one minute
5) Once the minute is up, measure the height of the bubbles created. Make sure to only measure the bubbles and not the water in the bowl.
6) Record results on the data table given
7) Repeat each step for all four options of dish soap. At the end, compare test results to determine which soap option is the best for washing your dishes.
Evaluation
| Dish Soap | Bubble Measurement (inches) | Best- Yes or No? |
| Dawn | 5.3-5.5 inches | No |
| Joy | 4.2-4.4 inches | No |
| Palmolive | 4.9-5.1 inches | No |
| Seventh Generation | 5.7-5.9 inches | Yes |
4-The students data table matches with the one above exactly. Everything was done correctly and results match up.
3- The students data table matches with the one above mostly. The majority of the measurements match up correctly with a 1-2 errors.
2-The students data table somewhat matches with the one above. Half of the measurements match up the other half do not.
1-The students data table is mostly wrong. The majority of the data table is wrong and have little correct measurements.
0-The student did not do the lab.
Conclusion
The student will now answer the following conclusions questions which will be graded separately from the project.
1) What is one thing you learned from this web quest?
2) What soap should you buy in order to get the best amount of bubbles, why?
3) What could you had done better, what would you like to do differently?
Credits
This Web Quest was created by Brian McIntyre. He is a Senior at Quincy Senior High School. Permission is granted for others to use, but not to change the Web Quest.