| $ Store Activity
Name: |
Lipstick and Lips
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| Concepts / Skills
addressed: |
measurement (weight)
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| Approximate Grade
Range: |
4th - 6th
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| Materials: |
Dollar store lipstick, 2 inch x
2 inch piece of plastic wrap, digital scale (most likely NOT from the
dollar store), a copied sheet of ten identical pictures of lips.
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| The General Idea:
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Wrap the plastic wrap around the
lipstick which has been carefully removed from its tube. Leave a
bit of the lipstick exposed. Weigh it (in grams) on the
scale. Carefully apply the lipstick to the ten set of lips on the
sheet so that all are covered. Re weigh the lipstick and find out
how much was used to cover ten sets of lips. use this to
determine the weight needed to cover one set of lips then figure out
how many lips can be had from one tube of lipstick.
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Extensions:
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Cut out from magazines pictures
of various celebrities (female and male) who have various sizes of
lips (Include someone like Mick Jagger!) Make ten copies of each
picture and glue each celebrity group of ten pictures onto a large
piece of paper (ten pictures per each celebrity). Try to keep the
size of the celebrity heads as close to one another as possible.
Do the same things described above, just using the celebrity
lips. Some celebrities will require more lipstick than
others. Predict who needs more/less and then find out.
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| Links: |
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Author:
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Carol El Koury
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