Sensory: Later Winter Week 1

This quarter's big theme is deconstruction.
We began our first day exploring a new material not explored last quarter, oil. After filling our own jars and a larger jar we each added blue water color and watched as it dispersed into the water. Friends shared observations about how the blue was mixing in. Some stirred rapidly with their droppers and others waited to see what the blue dye would do. Next, we added oil and spend the rest of day one talking about the natural separation which occurred each time we shook our jars.
We concluded that water is heavier because it sinks to the bottom and oil is lighter because it sinks to the top. The next three following days we began scaffolding upon the knowledge we gained from last quarter's ateliers using water, flour, salt and our new ingredient, oil.
Day two we examined the properties of prepared dough, trying to deconstruct how it was made. To enhance our sensory vocab and detection we added scents and parts of orange, lavender and peppermint. Day two we explored orange, grating orange peel (zest) into our dough. Day three we explored with peppermint and day four we explored with lavender. Day five we got to try and make the dough we had been exploring as well as adding any scent or combination of to make the perfect dough to take home and share using all of our senses.