Monday, October 20, 2008

Science Project: Dissolving in water

Today, Lola had an idea for a science project. She said that, at school, her teacher had used colored sugar to see if it dissolves in water so today Lola wanted to try other types of solids to see if they would dissolve also.

We tried five things. Flour, sugar, salt, ground oats and oil.






The flour only partially dissolved, but mostly did not.
She knew already that the sugar would dissolve completely, but we tried that one again anyway.
The salt did not completely dissolve, as she noticed the water was quite cloudy after mixing it.
The ground oats did not dissolve at all and she was able to pick up spoonfuls of oat particles.
Lola hypothesized that the oil would not dissolve but didn't realize it would end up sitting on top of the water! She thought that was pretty cool.

2 comments:

Jessa said...

Whooooooaaaa Mama!
Density is like, sixth grade!!!

Linnea said...

What a fun project! I have to do this with Blake. I thought I would check your blog out since you mentioned it earlier. It is really cute!
- Linnea, Blake's mom, I am pretty sure you figured that out.