Despite the fact that Nolan tells me constantly that he doesn't like science, he certainly loves "doing 'periments!" (I won't tell him that he is actually doing SCIENCE experiments since that might ruin it for him") LOL
Last week we were learning about mixtures and why some liquids mix together while others will just sit on top of each other. We started by mixing milk and grape juice together. That did mix and ended up with a purple milk which we dumped out after a few minutes. Then because he wanted to do it again, I mixed white milk with pepsi. Once again, that mixed together to make a darker cloudy milk. I turned my back for just one minute and the boy was drinking it down!! He said it was delicious and that I should let him have more of it for lunch. LOL
Then we started mixing other liquids together. First we added honey to the bottom and then we poured blue water on top of the honey followed by liquid dish soap and then milk. There were four very distinct layers. We talked about the science behind that and then I instructed him NOT to drink that one while I cleaned up a few other things in the kitchen!
He had so much fun working with that one that he asked if we could do another project so this time we poured vinegar (which is a liquid) into the bottom of a bottle. Then we added baking soda (which is the solid) to a balloon which we then stretched over the top of the bottle. Finally, he very slowly poured the baking soda from the balloon into the bottle making a chemical reaction and turning the baking soda into carbon dioxide (the gas) and causing the balloon to inflate.
Nolan loved the reaction once he knew that nothing bad was going to happen. At first he ran across the room shouting "I don't trust you, I don't trust you!" LOL I guess he remembers when the girls were homeschooling science and some of our projects didn't turn out quite so well!
Can't wait to see what we do next week!!
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