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STEP 19 - SCIENCE AND OILS

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Essential Oils are truly a gift from the earth. Therefore, there are many ways you can incorporate Essential Oils, their origins, their properties, and their uses into SCIENCE discussions and experiments.

Here are a couple of ideas to get you started introducing Essential Oils and their place in the study of science to your students:

• Oil chemistry.

• Oil density.

• Nutrition.

• Senses, especially olfaction.

• Benefits of plants.

• What it means to promote sustainability.

The Science for Kids Blog has several experiment ideas, videos, and worksheets to help you plan Essential Oil-related lessons.

One favorite is the density experiment/video, which compares what happens when you put drops of Lemon, Wintergreen, and Cinnamon into a glass of water. Lemon, being less dense than water, floats. Wintergreen, being denser than water, sinks. What does Cinnamon do? Something wild that you have to see for yourself!

QUESTION – DO YOU TEACH SCIENCE LESSONS IN YOUR CLASSROOM?