By the students in 3rd Grade

The Third Grade students learned a lot of surprising facts about dustdust in the book they read by our featured author, April Pulley Sayre.

Did you know that the more dustdust in the atmosphere, the more colorful the sunrises and sunsets?

First, the students learned all sorts of interesting facts

about dust. They wrote sentences about what

surprised them the most.

Then, using markers on coffee filter paper, they

drew the colors of sunsets

Using pipettes and spray bottles, they diluted the

water colors that had been absorbed onto the paper

and observed what changes occurred.

They saw that as the water spread, the ink colors streaked in interesting ways. This is “color writing” or chromatography at work.

Their finished sunset pictures were paired with their sentences on dust and put together as a display.

Dust is surprising!