Super Star Scientist...

Harper!

Experiment: Up, Up, and Away

Objective:  To create gas to fill a balloon.

Materials:  bottle, 5 Tbs vinegar, 1 Tbs baking soda, and 1 balloon

Scientist Harper is all set with her experiment materials, lab coat, and goggles.

First, Harper showed us what a funnel is and what it is used for.

Next, she and her assistant, Mom, measured out 5 tablespoons of vinegar...

...and poured them in the 2 liter bottle.

Next, they measured out 1 tablespoon of baking soda and carefully put it in the balloon.

After that, Harper's assistant carefully placed the balloon over the top of the bottle.

Harper explained what was going to happen next once she poured the baking soda from the balloon into the bottle with the vinegar...it will make a gas!

Harper then dumped the baking soda...

...the gas bubbled and inflated the balloon...

...and kept inflating...

...and kept inflating!!

Look at that!  

That's the face of a successful scientist!

Conclusion:  Mixing vinegar and baking soda create an expanding gas, carbon dioxide, which expands and fills the balloon.

We love RODEO time in FORT WORTH!

This is one tough lookin' group of Cowboys...

and rodeo clown "Rodeo Joe"!

And these here Cowgirls are boot scootin' cute!

What a fun day celebrating the

FORT WORTH STOCK SHOW & RODEO!

YEE HAW!!

Another Level-Upper to receive her

Ice Cream Sundae!

Way to go Harper...keep up the excellent reading!!

Super Star Scientist...

McKenna!

Experiment: Elephant's Toothpaste

Objective:  What happens when you mix hydrogen peroxide, soap, and yeast?

Materials: plastic bottles, hydrogen peroxide, dish soap, food coloring, dry yeast, funnel, gloves, tarp, and measuring spoons

McKenna, our scientist, had her lab coat, goggles, and materials all set up and ready to go!

First, McKenna's assistant added 4 oz. of hydrogen peroxide to the 1 liter plastic bottles.

Next, McKenna added a squirt of dish soap.

After that our scientist added a few drops of food coloring.

Then she carefully mixed her solution.

Next McKenna and her 3 assistants added a yeast & warm water mixture to the peroxide & dish soap solution.

Look what happened....

...and kept happening!

WHOA!!!  SO COOL!!!

McKenna made us Elephant Toothpaste!!

Thank you to the Booth Family for such a fun experiment!

Conclusion: The reaction forms oxygen filled bubbles which make up the foam.

Super Star Scientist...

Bradley!

Experiment: Atmospheric Pressure Demo

Objective:  How to use pressure to crush a can.

Materials:  1 can, 1/2 cup of water, 1 heat source, 1 ice bath

Scientist Bradley was ready to "experiment" with his safety gear on!

First, Bradley & his assistant, Dad, put water in the can.

Next the can was carefully place on the heat source.

The water is heating to its boiling point.

Bradley's assistant then carefully plugged up the hole in the top of the can.

Once the water was boiling, the can was carefully removed from the heat source and placed in the ice bath.

The can immediately imploded!

 Look at how that can was crushed just by the air contracting!

Bradley used safety gloves to hold the hot can.

The class thought Bradley's experiment was VERY cool!

Conclusion:

Contracting air inside the can causes atmospheric pressure to crush the can.

Here's another happy face of another happy reader!  Way to go, McKenna!

Keep up the awesome reading!!

Our teddy bears got a head start on our

Teddy Bear Picnic

this morning!  They helped themselves to our leftover Teddy Grahams & Gummy Bears!

By lunchtime, our teddy bears were hungry again just in time for our real picnic with them!

Natalie

Harper

Blake

Annelise

McKenna

Annabel

Cayden

Jackson L.

Evan

Haydn

Noah

Bradley

Jackson S.

Wyatt