Making Hokey Pokey 🍯

 Aim:

I want to find out how to make Hokey Pokey!

Hokey pokey funny dog

How to make hokey pokey

Method:

Equipment

• Sugar
• Baking soda
• Golden Syrup
• table spoon
• Saucepan/pot
• Cookie cutter
• baking paper
• Bunsen Burner
• Tripod

Instructions:

1. Get all the Equipment
2. Wash your hands 
3. Set up the Bunsen Burner
4. Put the pot on the tripod over the Bunsen Burner
5. light the Bunsen Burner ( whole close )
6. Add 5 tablespoons of sugar to the pot
7. add 2 tablespoons of golden syrup
8. melt and mix
9. turn off the gas and add one tablespoons of baking soda and mix
10. scrape the hokey pokey on to the baking paper 
11. let it cool for 1 minute
12. Press a cookie cutter into hokey pokey

Results:

Discussion:

  

Making Ginger Beer

 Aim:

I want to find out how to brew ( make ) ginger beer.

Research: YouTube; 1. What is alcohol or how to brew alcohol? 2. How to brew Ginger Beer?

3. Science of Fermentation?

(Also just letting you guys know, YouTube is not letting me put the video in probably so I will have to put links instead. )                     

Research:

Link thing

 Ginger ( Quarantine Activity )

 Fermentation

Method:

Equipment:

• Ginger ( source of sugar )
• Warm water
• Yeast
• cup
• spoon

Instructions:

1. Wash your hands
2. Get the equipment
3. put one table spoon of ginger in the cup
4. add one teaspoon of yeast
5. Mix it all together
6. leave it to ferment for one week
7. after one week, taste it                                                                                                              

Results:

As you can see, I made it, we had to taste a little then put it on the window and then taste it after one week and taste it entirely, everyone said their ones tastes disgusting but I think mine tastes really good!

What is fermentation--->

Fermentation is a chemical change that happens in vegetable and animal substances. For thousands of years people have used fermentation to make bread, wine, beer, cheese, and other foods. The enzymes break down food into chemicals. When bakers add yeast to bread dough, the yeast breaks down the sugars in the dough. 

 ( OTHER WAY TO SAY IT: Fermentation is a process that involves the breakdown of carbs by bacteria and yeast. It results in a distinctive tart flavor and is used to make foods like yogurt, cheese, and sauerkraut.

REAL RESULTS AFTER A WEEK:

I didn't taste it because mine smelt so bad, like barf but way stronger, and had these white stuff inside, but from the smell I almost threw up, Mr tasted mine and he almost threw up. Plus it looked horrible. It was honestly disgusting.

 :( yuck...

 

Red cabbage undicator

 Aim: I want to find out how red cabbage can tell if a liquid is an acid or a base.

Research: 1x YouTube video about Red Cabbage Indicators.

           

Method:

Equipment: 

• Acid was hydrochloride Acid
• Base was Sodium hydroxide 
• Water
• Cup/beaker
• Test tube 
• Dropper 
• Red cabbage

Instructions: 

1. Wash your hands
2. Grab your equipment
3. Put water into the beaker
4. Cut the cabbage in little pieces and put it in the beaker with the water in it & mix the water with cabbage until its dark
5. Grab the water colour of the cabbage beaker with the dropper and put some in each Test tube and you should count how many drops you put
6. Get the Sodium Acid and Base acid 
7. Put one of the acids or both in the test tubes and you should count how many drops you put in
8. And make colours with the acids and cabbage water!
9. Quest: Try to put more than 1 colour in a test tube without them mixing
10. Now make your adventure of colours 😃

Results:     The colours went to dark to slowly light, the most surprising colour was yellow and when you could put another layer on a colour.           

Discussion:        Q1: What is an Acid and a Base-------------------

      HARDER EXPLANATION: An acid–base reaction is a chemical reaction that occurs between an acid and a base. It can be used to determine pH. 

EASIER EXPLANATION: An acid is a substance that can donate a hydrogen ion (H⁺) to another substance. ... A strong acid will be able to let go of many or all of their hydrogen ions while a weak acid will hold onto some of their ions. Because acids donate hydrogen ions, all acids must have hydrogen in them.

  

                           Q2 :   What do chemical indicators do----------

 Chemical indicators are used to monitor whether the parameters to achieve sterilization have been met for a specific sterilization process.

                           Q3 : An ion is a special type of atom or molecule that has an electric charge. A hydrogen ion, then, is one that has a tiny electrical charge. Every substance in the universe is made up of hundreds and thousands of tiny atoms, molecules and ions. When a large number of those are hydrogen ions, the substance is acidic

   

                         

Making Sherbet

 Aim:

I want to find out how to make sherbet.

Research: How to make sherbet video & The science behind sherbet:

                 

                                                     How to make Sherbet video---------------

The science behind sherbet-----------

Method:

Equipment

• Popsicle stick
• Citric Acid
• Raro
• Baking soda
• Paper

Instructions

1. Get your Equipment
2. Wash your hands
3. put the paper on your table
4. get a pile of the three powders
5. Using your Popsicle stick mix some of each powder
6. Taste the sherbet
7. if there is too much baking soda, add more citric acid
8. if there is to much citric acid, add more baking soda
9. to improve the flavour add more Raro

Results:

I wasn't here but my friends said that it tasted okay, she sent me a photo from the day though!  :) 😃

Discussion: 

Why did the sherbet not foam on the paper but it did in your mouth?

What was the chemical reaction in the sherbet?

The fizzing sensation experienced when eating sherbet is a result of the chemical reaction between the citric acid and sodium bicarbonate. This reaction also produces small bubbles of carbon dioxide but only when the dry ingredients are wet by saliva in the mouth.

What type of chemical reaction is this?

Naturalisation

Blind Taste Testing 👅

 Aim: I want to find out if food tastes differently when you can see or smell.

Research:  Doing disgusting food tasting-------how do you taste food?  🍰

                                                          FUNNY:

SCIENCE:

Method:

Equipment:

1. Unknown food MYSTERY.
2. Blindfold.
3. Popsicle stick.

Instructions:

• Get all of the equipment required.
• Wash your hands.
• Put on your mask over your eyes.
• Block your nose from smelling the food you'll get.
• Put your hands out to collect the food.
• Eat the food.
• Unblock your nose and guess what you ate.

Results:

                                                        sugar FIRST:

                                            salt  SECOND:

baking soda THIRD:

 

Now we will be starting the blindfolded:

It was a pickle FIRST:

It was a potato SECOND:

It was a apple THIRD:

It was a pear FOURTH:

It was marshmallows 5TH:

It was burger rings 4TH:

It was candy 5TH:

Here is the other side of the results:

First taste	Last taste	Food guess
Sweet	Sweet	Sugar
Salty	Sour	Salt
Biter	Biter	Icing sugar
Slimey	Good and tasty	Pickle
with like dirt in it	Hard like an apple	I don't know.
Sweet and fruity	crunchy	apple
Hard and sweet	slimy	Kiwi
Hard and chewy	Chewy	Stale Marsh mellows
Yummy	Yummy	Burger rings
Sweet	Coke flavour	Candy

                                                                   Discussion:

                                                       How do you taste food?:

 taste buds pick up clues about how a food tastes and sends messages about it to your brain along special wires called nerves. To taste something properly, you need to chew food into small pieces and to have a lot of drool, or saliva. This help the flavour molecules (also known as “tastants”) reach your taste buds.

                                                       What are different tastes?:

               Sweet, sour,fruity,slimy,Chewy,Biter,Salty,savoury,meaty,cool,hot,

                              Where are the different taste buds on your tounge?                         Each person has between 5,000 and 10,000 taste buds, most of which are located in papillae — the small rounded bumps on the upper surface of the tongue. Taste buds are also scattered across the roof of the mouth and the back of the throat.

Eating hot chilli 🌶

Aim: I want to find out how to get rid of burning chilli off my tongue.

Research: Find a funny YouTube  of eating hot chilli. Find a video about science of chilli.

Funny hot chilli

Science hot chilli

Method

Equipment

• Coca-cola
• water
• milk
• timer
• Popsicle stick.
• Carolina Reaper.
• Plastic shot cups.

Instructions

1. Get your equipment.
2. Scoop some chilli onto your stick.
3. Start the timer and eat the chilli.
4. Stop the timer after 4mins.
5. Rate how hot your mouth is.
6. Do experiment again but drink water after 2mins.
7. Do the experiment again but drink coca-cola after 2mins.
8. Drink milk🥛

Results 🥵 :

The first chill I did was without water and I am scoring it a 10 for burning.

*No video*

The second time, I had water and after 4mins I scored it a 6.5 for burning.

The third time, I had Coca-cola and I scored it a 9 for burning.

The fourth time, I had milk and I scored it a 2 almost a 1 for burning. ( hated milk ) :)

                                       Review:

     The coke for me made it worse and I feel like throwing up from that, all of them.

Discussion:

                                                  Why does chilli burn your mouth?:  

Capsaicin makes your mouth feel as if it is on fire because the capsaicin molecule happens to fit the receptors perfectly. When this happens, it triggers these receptors, which send a signal to your brain, fooling it into thinking that your mouth is literally burning.

                                                   Why did the milk reduce the burn?:

Milk is a solution when eating spicy foods. That's because milk helps your mouth handle capsaicin, an oily chemical compound in chilli peppers. ... Since capsaicin is fat-soluble, rinsing with milk fat helps ease the burn. Casein protein found in milk can also bind to the capsaicin and wash it away. 

                                                   THANK YOU FOR READING :)   

Bacteria around out School

 Aim: 

I want to find out what type of bacteria are around our school.

Research:

                                                     funny----------------------------------------

                                                    Science------------------------------------

                                          Experiment--------------------------------

Method:

Equipment

• Cue tips cotton buds
• Agar Plates
• Marker Pen
• Cello tape

Instructions

1. Get your equipment.
2. Wash your hands.
3. Use a marker pen to write your name and location on the lid .
4. Wet the cue tip and swab the surface.
5. Gently swab the agar plate. 
6. Tape around the edges of the agar plate.
7. Put the agar plate in an incubator overnight.
8. Observe the plate the next day.

RESULTS: (disgusting)

                                                                front side--------------------------------------

                                                                 Behind----------------------------------

 

so it was actually really disgusting, it almost made me throw up, and as you can see my one has fungus on it.

Mine has blue, white, orange, & yellow.

Q. Does it look fuzzy?

Yes: Fungus

No: Looks smooth:bacteria

White: E.coli (poo bacteria)

Yellow: (gold) Streptococci ( Throat infection)

Orange: (Worse version of yellow)

OTHERS:

Pink: Salmonella (food poisoning)

Red: Meningitis (Brain infection)

Thank you for reading :)

Gummy Bear Osmosis

 Aim: I want to find out what happens to Gummy Bears when left in liquids.

Method: Equipment

• Gummy Bears.
• Liquids-water, sodium chloride, glucose.
• Electronic scale.
• 4x Petri dishes.
• Marker pen.

Instructions: 

• Get all of your equipment.
• right your name and the condition on the petri dish.
• weigh the gummy bear and put it down on the petri dish

Result:

Measuring Coke and mentos

Aim- I want to find out how many bubbles are made when mentos is dropped in coke.

Method:

Equipment-

• Coke,Coke zero,sprite
• Mentos
• Measuring cylinder (100mL) (10mL)
• safety glasses
• Detergent
• small beaker

instructions-

1. get the equipment 
2. pour 20mL of coke in the 100mL
3. add 5mL of detergent to the coke
4. add the mentos

Resluts:

Conclusion

I found out that the sprite in my team got most highest amount/height of bubbles then the coke and coke zero.

Milk Plastic(Caesin)

 Aim : I want to find out how to turn milk into plastic.

Method: 


Equipment:

• Stove, Oven or microwave

• Measuring cup

• Measuring spoon

• Milk 1 cup

• pot or microwavable container

• white vinegar

• paper towels

• spoon

• mug

• Optimal (Food colouring glitter cookie cutters)

Instructions:

1. Get everything ready

1. Pour one cup of milk in the pot or microwave container

1. Heat the milk in the microwave or on the stove until it is steaming

1. Add 4 teaspoons of white vinegar to a mug

1. Add the hot milk to the mug with the vinegar

1. Stir the mixture with a spoon

1. Stack 4 layers of paper towels on a surface that is safe to get damp

1. Scoop out the curds with a spoon and place them on the paper towels

1. Fold the paper towels over the curds and press down to absorb excess liquid

1. Colour, shape,or mold the dough as you like

1. put all your creations on a paper towel and let them dry overnight

Casein is a slow-digesting dairy protein that people often take as a supplement. It releases amino acids slowly, so people often take it before bed to help with recovery and reduce muscle breakdown while they sleep. Several studies have shown it helps boost muscle growth, along with a ton of other benefits.  

Edible Slime

 Aim:

I want to find out how to make edible slime.

Method:

Equipment:

1. Marsh mellows
2. Popsicle stick
3. Cup
4. icing sugar
5. microwave
6. vegetable oil

Instructions:

1. Get the Equipment
2. wash your hands
3. put the marshmallows into your cup
4. Melt the marshmallows in the microwave ( 10 seconds )
5. put a DROP of oil
6. put some icing sugar
7. stir the marshmallows till it becomes slime

Results: 

I could stretch it the longest, my slime was DUCTILE in the class and when i ate it, it felt smooth but very hard: 

Skittle Colours

Aim:

I want to find out what happens when you put Skittles in water

Method:

Equipment

• Petri Dish
• Skittles
• Warm water
• small beaker

Instructions

1. Get all you equipment ready.
2. spread out the skittles around the edge
3. Gently, pour the warm water into the middle of the petri dish
4. Observe what happens

Results:

Discussion:

why did the colour have the skittles? 

The sugar coating dissolved in the water.

Why did the colours not mix?

Scientific Equipment

1.Beaker

A beaker is for carrying liquids.

2.Bunsen burner

A Bunsen burner is used to light gas with fire and other liquids.

3. Gauze mat

A gauze mat is used to protect the table and container your using from breaking/burning.

4.Funnel

A funnel is used to move liquid from a bit or small/medium container into a different container.

5. Test Tube

A Test Tube is to hold a small amount of liquid.

6.Conical Flask

Conical Flask is used to hold and measure chemical liquid samples.

7.Spatula

A spatula is used for scrapping and transferring.

8.Measuring Cylinder

A measuring cylinder is used for to measure small amounts of liquid.

9.Scissor tongs

It is used to hold onto flasks and beakers.

10.Tripod

It is used to support flasks and beakers.

11.Evaporating Basin

Is used to melt and the dish is heated by the Bunsen burner

12. Thermometer

Is used for to measure, it can be a solid food, a liquid such as water or a gas such as air.

13.Test Tube tongs

Are used for holding or lifting or heating test tubes.

14.Retort Stand

Is used to support other pieces of equipment and glassware — for instance, burettes, test tubes and flasks.

15. Boss head

Is one of those three things that holds a Florence flask or Conical flask on a retort stand. A Boss head is used to keep the clamp in place so if you put a glass holder in between the clamp it doesn't fall/break.

16. Clamp

It is used to hold round laboratory glassware, such as a beaker, and flasks, etc. This type of clamp is made from stainless steel.

17. Fume Cupboard

is a ventilated enclosure in which gases, vapors and fumes are contained.

18.Scalpel

To cut things?

19. Burette

used in quantitative chemical analysis to measure the volume of a liquid or a gas. It consists of a graduated glass tube with a stopcock.

20.Pipette

How to Light a Bunsen Burner

Aim:

I want to find out how to SAFELY light a Bunsen Burner

Method:

Equipment:

1. Lighter/Matches.
2. Heat mat.
3. Bunsen Burner.
4. Get safety glasses.

Instructions:

1.  Get all the equipment and put your safety glasses.
2. Connect the Bunsen Burner hose to the gas tap.
3. Turn the collar to close the air hole.
4. Light your match or lighter out it over the Bunsen Burner not twisting or leaning over the Bunsen Burner then turn the gas on.
5. if your not using it turn the gas off.

Hands on Fire

Aim: 

I want to find out how to set myself on fire safely

Method:

Equipment

• Large container of water
• Detergent (Liquid soap) 
• Hose
• Gas
• Lighter
• Safety glasses

Instructions

1. Collect the equipment
2. Fill the Large container 2 centimetres of water.
3. Put some Liquid soap into the water and gently mix it around.
4. Connect the hose to the gas tap.
5. Turn on the gas and bubble it into the water
6. Tie any long hair up.
7. Roll up your sleeve.
8. Wet your hands and arms with water.
9. With 2 hands scoop the bubbles but not the water.
10. Take 2 steps forward.

                  RESULTS:

I saw it like a big orange ball, that kinda looked like part of the sun right up the my face.

It felt like the whole place was gonna burn, plus myself.

It smelt like smoking flames.

Safety in the Lab

Rules 

1. You must follow the instructions given by the teacher.
2. You must not enter the Lab without the teacher.
3. Report any breakages.
4. Shoes must be worn at all times.
5. Do not eat or drink inside the Lab.
6. If you spill something, tell the teacher then clean it up.
7. Wash your hands after doing experiments.
8. A heatproof mat should always be used when heating.
9. If in doubt, ask the teacher.
10. Never eat taste or smell chemicals.   

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1. Liquids do not go into the bins, because.....They go in the sink.

2. Solids do not go down the sink because....It can block the sink.

3. Wear safety glasses when you do experiments,

because... To protect your eyes.

4. Put your chair under the desk, And stand at the bench

when you do experiments, because...You can trip.

5. Bags do not go on the desks, because...You can spill chemicals on your bag.

6. Long hair should be tied back, because...It can catch on fire.

7. Do not smell the chemicals, because...You'll pass out.

8. Walk, don’t run around the room, because...You could fall over and break a leg or your arm.

9. Do not eat or drink in the lab, because... you'll get chemicals in your hand in the Lab and you could get sick.