Friday, October 15, 2010

SHARE YOUR HOME EXPERIMENTS!

SCIENTISTS AT WORK-Making Ooblek!
Have you done an experiment at home- one that would be suitable for the Middles to try. Please share with us, remembering we need materials and procedure to guide us!

10 comments:

  1. Shall work on it. I know the CSIRO website has some fantastic experiments you can do at home. A good one is "Manic Mixtures" or did you do that on Mad Scientist Day? I also love making "Pop Rockets" but it can be a little messy. Have you tried making crystals that hang from a string?
    My class have great fun earlier in the year when we had a Mad Scientist Day. Our current unit is Lights, Camera, Action....guess what we are doing in 10 days? Thanks for emailing Mrs. Yore.

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  2. I know the CSIRO website has heaps. Have you tried growing crystals? It can take a little time, but they look great when growing. How about Pop Rockets, or did you do them on Mad Scientist Day? Racing boats across water using detergent is fun, I shall send the instructions if you don't know what to do. Making drivers in coke bottles is easy to do at home. So is making a white carnation change colour by adding food colouring to the water. Have lots of fun, the kitchen is a great place to start mixing, melting and combining ingredients to see a chemical reaction.Good luck, thanks for the email Mrs Yore. You are very clever with your blogs, I think I need a few lessons.

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  3. Thanks, Karen. We did make the pop rockets and did lots of the experiments you organised two years ago! We'd love the racing boats and detergent one! Thanks.

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  4. Ooblek is very cool in a gooey way, what was your conclusion?

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  5. Hi everyone, the boat racing one is simple and easy.
    YOU NEED
    An icecream container lid
    A shallow casserole dish
    Dishwashing detergent
    A dropper
    WHAT TO DO
    Cut out a boat shape from the icecream container lid. A good design is a square with a triangle top (joined).
    Cut out a small square shape at the back of the boat, where the engine would be.
    Fill the casserole dish half full.
    Place your boat design on top of the water .
    Using the dropper suck up some detergent.
    Squeeze a little drop of detergent into the engine part of the boat.
    The boat should move forward.

    You can race your boats, try different designs and amounts of liquid.

    Good Luck

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  6. Dear Middles,
    Here's a good place to look for fun experiments. Try one and tell us about it by adding your comment!

    http://www.csiro.au/resources/ChemistryActivities.html

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  7. Dear Mr Wood and Team 17,
    Ooblek appeared to be neither a liquid nor a solid! When we touched it, it felt like a solid. But when we picked it up,it reacted like a liquid. Another name we learnt was non-newtonian slime!

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  8. hi middle matters,
    your blog is coming along really well.
    cant wait to see more things on here.
    Sidoti family
    xxx

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  9. Kia Ora,

    Thanks for the instructions to make the ooblek. We made a video when making the ooblek ( also we say hello to Middle Matters). I am not sure we got the desired results but certainly had fun and made a mess. We were disappointed that our hair didn't change like the photograph in your blog.

    http://burnhamrm2.blogspot.com/2010/11/middle-matters-experiment.html

    Mr Thurlow.

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  10. Hi!!!
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    I'm 10 iers old.
    Before I used to go to Masclara school.
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