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Density Drinks
Tweet Imagine a hot summer day. You’re at a picnic and go to the container where the cans of drink are staying nice and cool. Which cans are floating in the iced water, and which have sunk to the bottom? You will need: several unopened cans of regular fizzy drinks of different varieties • several [...]
Fizzy Fizzics
Tweet Fizzy Fizzics! Why not do a fun science experiment that leaves you with your own fizzy drink to enjoy afterwards! We’ve been here before but we think you can never have enough different ways to investigate making carbon dioxide in the classroom or at home. In fact this update is really chemistry rather than [...]
Dancing Rice Crispies
Tweet Which breakfast cereal responds best to static electricity? What You Need: A piece of thin but hard clear plastic no smaller than an A4 sheet of paper. Something to support the plastic a few inches above the table eg small wooden blocks, books, anything you have. Wool hat (or alternative similar item such as [...]
Making Raisins Dance
Tweet Materials: Drinking glass, Lemonade, Raisins, (‘Lemonade substitute’ Water, Vinegar, Baking Soda –optional) In this experiment, you simply fill a glass with lemonade and drop a few raisins into it. The raisins should begin to bounce up and down in the glass of pop. If you don’t have lemonade you can use ‘lemonade [...]