Austen's science week

A day of science

It was a Tuesday morning in the  middle Block and we got told today we were going to be doing some science experiments. Then the teachers asked "Who wants to be a scientist?" My hand shot up at 100 KPH. Then they asked us "What type of Science do you want to study?" I answered "Biology, Zoology and Chemistry. Then we began our experiments.

 A few minutes later we began to start the experiments. We started with the experiment Fizz inflator. The ingredients were empty water bottles, vinegar, balloons baking soda, sugar and yeast. To do the experiment first we poured the vinegar into an empty water bottle. Then we stretched the balloon we had, and filled it with a teaspoon of baking soda. Next we carefully attached the neck of the balloon to the neck of the bottle of water. Finally we watched as the chemical reactions and the forces make the vinegar rise and it looked like an eruption and it inflated the balloon, while it also looked quite fizzy. We took a bit of photos and then moved on to our next experiment.

The next experiment we did was dancing raisins. The ingredients were soda, plastic cups and a few raisins. First you pour the soda into the plastic cup. Then we put 6-8 raisins in  the soda. Next they started coming up and down in the cup for a little before they stopped, we also had to record them here's what I wrote: The raisins  were moving up with the carbon-dioxide of the bubbles and when they reached the top the bubbles went down. But they did not do that that well I described them as "They are drowning like old people." We also pretended  that they were on 'Raisins got talent'.  After that we got to drink the soda and eat the raisins.

Then we went on to our final activity the incredible hoop glider. First we had to observe the design and the things the features of the design model plane.I got to help Whea Nin cut the paper strips for the hoops. First we had five minutes to make a small hoop. Then we had five minutes to make a bigger hoop and then we had 10 minutes to put the two hoops onto a straw, it felt like forever but finally we did it. Then we went outside to race them it wasn't easy to see who won, but it I think I came around 6-8 place so I did pretty well.