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| Oh, that kitchen table and all its wonderful uses |
Sometimes they go really well and we have a great time doing them.
Some of our PASS science activities have been.
- Planting Socks
- Mealworms
- Learning parts of a flower.
- Trying different types of milk
- Making bio-plastic at home
- Extracting DNA from our cheeks
and more recently making Oobleck.
However NOT all science activities go well and the one this week just proves that point.
The activity is suppose to be making rust on the piece of steel wool. We set it up according the the directions in our science book, Science 7 for Young Catholics
. It's just not working. The instruction state to take some steel wool and make it stick to bottom of the jar with some clay or playdough, turn the jar upside down and place in a pan with some water. After a few days the water level in the jar should go up and the steel wool should have some rust on it. After nearly a week there has been no change.
I'm not sure what I did wrong. Maybe I don't have the right type of steel wool? Maybe I'm not giving it enough time -- but after a week I would like my kitchen table back. It's no fun eating dinner with the science project in the middle of the table. At least this one isn't as messy or gross as some science projects can get. Any insight on why it's not working? Are you doing any science experiments? If not actively doing one what was one of your favorite ones in the pass? I did a quick periscope on how our current science experiment is failing. You can "katch" it here on my katch me page.
However NOT all science activities go well and the one this week just proves that point.
The activity is suppose to be making rust on the piece of steel wool. We set it up according the the directions in our science book, Science 7 for Young Catholics
. It's just not working. The instruction state to take some steel wool and make it stick to bottom of the jar with some clay or playdough, turn the jar upside down and place in a pan with some water. After a few days the water level in the jar should go up and the steel wool should have some rust on it. After nearly a week there has been no change.I'm not sure what I did wrong. Maybe I don't have the right type of steel wool? Maybe I'm not giving it enough time -- but after a week I would like my kitchen table back. It's no fun eating dinner with the science project in the middle of the table. At least this one isn't as messy or gross as some science projects can get. Any insight on why it's not working? Are you doing any science experiments? If not actively doing one what was one of your favorite ones in the pass? I did a quick periscope on how our current science experiment is failing. You can "katch" it here on my katch me page.
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