Creating our first volcano with the dough mix.
It has been a busy week in primary 6a. We have continued learning about natural disasters and this week our focus was on Volcanoes. Earlier in the week we created our own volcanoes using a salt dough mix. On Friday the excitement levels were rising as fast as lava as we started to experiment using a range of ingredients to make our volcanoes erupt. As a class we conducted the first experiment using the quantities recommended for the lesson before splitting in to our groups and altering the variables so that we could note any significant changes to the eruptions.
Getting our hands sticky!
Working as a team to create our volcano.
Mixing in the dough before we build it.
It was important to measure carefully.
This team worked well together.
It got sticky at times!
“How are we going to get this off?”
Watching the first eruption!
Ready for some experimenting.
In goes the vinegar…
A successful lava eruption!
This mixture worked well.
We could see this lava running slowly down the side of the volcano.
Adding the final ingredient.
Happy that their measures worked!
Too much or too little of some ingredients changed the outcome.
Yes!!
Team work goals!
