Chemistry students use skit to study matter
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| The Particle Sisters (from left to right: junior Mona Gava, sophomore Mallory Sinkovec, and sophomore Angela Mitchem) discuss their weekend plans as part of a skit about matter. |
 The Particle Sisters – sister solid, sister liquid, and sister gas – explained the role of matter and the changes it undergoes in a skit created by teacher Betty Overocker's first period Honors Chemistry class. The students presented the skit to a small Lakes audience during class on Jan. 6 and are planning to perform for fourth or fifth grade classes at Oakland and W.C. Petty elementary schools sometime next semester.
Each of Overocker's three honors classes has been developing separate story lines, assigning parts, and rehearsing on and off since the end of October, when students were studying matter and its changes, Overocker said. The assignment asked students to come up with a creative way to bring together all of the information they studied.
First period's skit, titled "Party with the Particles", focused on the Particle Sisters' lives at school and at weekend parties, during which they explained and demonstrated the different ways solids, liquids, and gases change. Characters consisted of the sisters, narrators, classmates, and fellow party-goers. |
