Category: Fun Science Activity (Page 101 of 112)

Weekend Science Fun: Candy Science

November 1, 2008 / Roberta / 0 Comments

Do your kids have a stash of Halloween candy? What a great time to do fun candy science experiments!

candy

If you have any wintergreen LifeSaverÂ® candies in the hoard, here is a quick way to make lightning in your mouth with candy.

Candy Chromatography
Separating the colors in MandMâ€™s or SkittlesÂ® using paper chromatography is for older kids. It takes a bit of time and patience.

A simple experiment with Candy Chromatography uses water to make spots on a coffee filter.

Dogged Research has an extensive research paper that covers many of the issues you may encounter. If you have time, youâ€™ll learn quite a bit.

Chocolate science is always fun. This chocolate experiment is for older kids interested in food science. It does require heat and special ingredients.

Steve Spanglerâ€™s Science has several fun, candy-related experiments.

1. This experiment uses pop rocks popping candy and soda to explore how this candy gets its bang.

2. Mentos candy and diet soda causes a big splash.
Hereâ€™s why it works.

3. More candy science ideas

If you didnâ€™t get enough candy last night, try Making Rock Candy. Use the recipe to make some sugar crystals.

We are in a bit of a rush today. We’ve been promised the opportunity to play with a fabulous microscope camera device. Hopefully we’ll be able to show some incredible photos for bug of the week next week.

Have some sweet success with candy science today.

Growing With Science Website Reveal

October 31, 2008 / Roberta / 0 Comments

After several months of heavy construction, the new Growing With Science website is ready for reveal.

The website has science activities organized by age and theme. I’ve tried to keep the pages simple and direct. There will probably occasionally be a few typos and oddities as I develop it over the next few months. Let me know if you have major difficulties with anything.

Here is the URL address:Â http://growingwithscience.com/Welcome.html

The first theme is growing plants from kitchen scraps, or other items found around the kitchen. Most of these activities can be carried out indoors for little or no cost. Simply click on the science activity link and then pick one of the links listed under your child’s age level.

The second theme is Weather for Kids. If you like pretty photographs of clouds,Â visit the cloud classification activity and try the slide show.

Hope you find a fun activity that you just have to try.

Do Apples and Pumpkins Float?

October 27, 2008 / Roberta / 0 Comments

Some questions came in from the previous post on apples and pumpkins about whether apples and pumpkins float. If you can, you should try floating them yourself, because it is fun.

If it’s too cold where you live to be outside playing in water right now, take a look at how our experiments turned out.

floating pumpkin