Science: Sherbet

Today we did science. It was about making sherbet. So we had to mix icing sugar, citric acid, tartartic acid and baking soda. There were different groups which had a different amount of teaspoons for each ingredient. Our group had 4 tp of tartartic acid, 2 tp of citric acid, 5 tp of icing sugar and 2 tp of baking soda. The tartartic acid makes it tart, citric makes it sour, icing sugar makes it sweet and the baking soda for a fizz. Our one was really good because it foamed in our mouth.  

Science: Spud Guns

For science today we did spud guns. It didn't exactly work because the straws kept bending. In my opinion the experiment was really fun because the potato went flying out occasionally. To make the potato shoot you had to push straw through the potato to have a thick rope of potato. After that you had to take the straw out. Then you had to get a narrow blunt stick to push the the potato out. The first time I did it, it didn't work out, but the second time it was flying out, it traveled at least 3 metres. It was really fun!

Science: Bird Beaks

Today we did a science experience on bird beaks that were tweezers.We tried to pick up skittles, gummy worms and paper. So there were basically two types of tweezers. The first type was the flat to beaks. The flat beaks were good with skittles and paper because the flat top could slide under the paper which was easy to pick up. The same the happened with skittles too. The second type was a pointed and sharp tip beak. It was easy to pick up the gummy worms because it could jab into the worm very easily. I really liked this experiment because I am very interested into the life of birds.