Friday Fun - Our Homeschool Science Show - 2 Episodes
Join us as we experiment with Science!
My little girl likes to make videos for our family, to share with cousins and relatives. Her shows at first were song and dance numbers, then she helped her brother co-host a backyard nature exploration show and now she's excited to host her own Science Experiment Show.
Look for more!
And, here's Episode 2! These videos are a very interactive way for her to explore concepts...have fun, develop presentation skills ... all while learning.
How It Works -
Milk consists of a lot of different types of molecules, including fat, protein, sugars, vitamins, and minerals. If you had just touched a clean cotton swab to the milk (try it!), not much would have happened. The cotton is absorbent, so you would have created a current in the milk, but you wouldn't have seen anything especially dramatic happen. When you introduce detergent to the milk, several things happen at once. The detergent lowers the surface tension of the liquid so that the food coloring is free to flow throughout the milk. The detergent reacts with the protein in the milk, altering the shape of those molecules and setting them in motion. The reaction between the detergent and the fat forms micelles, which is how detergent helps to lift grease off of dirty dishes. As the micelles form, the pigments in the food coloring get pushed around. Eventually equilibrium is reached, but the swirling of the colors continues for quite a while before stopping. LINK
Are you creating videos? Share them in comments. We'd love to see them.
My little girl likes to make videos for our family, to share with cousins and relatives. Her shows at first were song and dance numbers, then she helped her brother co-host a backyard nature exploration show and now she's excited to host her own Science Experiment Show.
Look for more!
And, here's Episode 2! These videos are a very interactive way for her to explore concepts...have fun, develop presentation skills ... all while learning.
How It Works -
Milk consists of a lot of different types of molecules, including fat, protein, sugars, vitamins, and minerals. If you had just touched a clean cotton swab to the milk (try it!), not much would have happened. The cotton is absorbent, so you would have created a current in the milk, but you wouldn't have seen anything especially dramatic happen. When you introduce detergent to the milk, several things happen at once. The detergent lowers the surface tension of the liquid so that the food coloring is free to flow throughout the milk. The detergent reacts with the protein in the milk, altering the shape of those molecules and setting them in motion. The reaction between the detergent and the fat forms micelles, which is how detergent helps to lift grease off of dirty dishes. As the micelles form, the pigments in the food coloring get pushed around. Eventually equilibrium is reached, but the swirling of the colors continues for quite a while before stopping. LINK
Are you creating videos? Share them in comments. We'd love to see them.
1 comment:
Hi Allison...I am blogging over here http://wwwendlessways.blogspot.com/ visit me??!! Your daughter is a sweet as can be!
Post a Comment