Liquids!

Posted on | October 23, 2009 | No Comments

So, inspired by an episode of DragonflyTV, J decided to do the recommended “Do It!” experiment. After all, he reasoned, we do have a little dropper.

So we did. They asked the kids to try dropping different amounts of fluids, drop by drop, onto pennies and see how things came out.

First was water:

The fine motor skills required to handle the awkward pipette are a bit much so we mostly ended up with little puddles of water.

But we keep trying! After all, we have seven pennies to work with. Practice, practice, practice!

Sometimes, he wondered about that pipette.

Besides water, we also tried soy sauce, apple juice, worchestershire sauce and oil.

Quite frankly, they all ended up as puddles because it was so much fun to watch that moment when the surface tension weakened and it all went gushing off the penny.

So while “surface tension” was mentioned, what we came away with is try, try, try and try again. That, and he doesn’t like the smell of Worchestershire sauce at all.

Note to self: need to pray about ways to incorporate scripture into these experiments. You think a five year old would get the concept of gluons? Hmmm.

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