This week in science is not a typical school week, its
chemistry camp. Chemistry camp is a high intensity summer camp devoted to crazy
cool explosions, chemical reactions and more explosions. The first awesome day
of camp consisted of highly difficult cup stacking, mento and soda
explosions which were awesome, making bottle rockets and creating homemade rock
candy which later will lead to hyperactive children. The first activity we did
was to stack solo cups. You’re probably thinking easy right. NO WAY!!!!We were
not allowed to touch them with our hands. All we had was a rubber band and a
string for each person. We had to use team work and pick the cups up one by one
which was totally super hard. Luckily Ben had done it before and told us
exactly how to pick them up. Thanks Ben!!.
After that we got to watch the
other teams TRY to pick them up. After intense cup stacking we
made our way outside to launch the mento soda geyser. We all pretty much know
what happens when you put mentos in soda, and if you don't, just click the link
below. Today in science we learned how it works. So basically in the mentos
there are little craters and when put in soda( which contains carbon
dioxide)the craters fill up with millions of tiny bubbles which rise to the top
of the bottle creating an eruption. After we created our spectacular soda
geysers we headed inside to work on our bottle rockets. This activity was
easy for me because I had worked on bottle rockets for Science Olympiad. I
think it was cool just doing it for fun and good practice too if I want to do
it next year. I think my bottle rocket turned out ok even though I have a
broken arm. T
he next activity we did was make homemade rock candy. To make this
we had to a lot of sugar I mean a lot amost three cups!!!!! To dissolve all
that sugar in to one cup of water we had to heat it in two minute intervals.
Heating the water helped the sugar dissolve because when water is heated it
allows the water molecules to be more spread out. Then just like the snowflake
lab we tied a string to a pencil and let the string sit in the mixture to
let it crystallize. So far science camp has been fun and I can’t wait until
tomorrow!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RX4_OrRZa1g
No comments:
Post a Comment