{"id":20458,"date":"2022-03-18T16:31:12","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T16:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/?p=20458"},"modified":"2022-03-18T16:31:12","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T16:31:12","slug":"milk-and-germ-science-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/2022\/03\/18\/milk-and-germ-science-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"Milk and Germ Science Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s Friday, what better way to end the week with a science experiment. Well, it is British Science Week!<\/p>\n

Today in the Discovery Room, in our technology area, we have decided to do a milk food colouring experiment on the light table. For this experiment \u00a0we gathered everything we needed-a bowl, milk, food colouring, fairy liquid and some cotton swabs.<\/p>\n

We poured enough milk in a bowl to cover the surface with the depth of about a 1\/4 inch. We then added a few drops of different food colouring in the centre of the bowl of milk quite close to each other.<\/p>\n

Next for the fun bit ! We dipped the cotton swabs in a small amount of fairy liquid and then dipped it in the colours one at a time for around 10\/15 seconds.
\nWe were careful to move each swap onto one colour at a time, without disturbing the milk.
\nWe were amazed to see how the colours swirled and changed in the milk especially when we placed the cotton swab on to the different colours .<\/p>\n

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\nWow look at the burst of colours!<\/p>\n

\u201c It\u2019s like fireworks ”\u00a0 \u201c It\u2019s moving \u201c<\/p>\n

\u201dIt turned into a new colour\u201d \u201c It has waves in it\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201dThe milk has changed colour \u201c \u00a0 \u201cIt looks like dynamite\u201d<\/p>\n

We developed our science skills by investigating the effects of adding substance together which cause a reaction.<\/p>\n

Because we had so much fun, we decided to do a Germ Experiment.
\nWe added a good coating of glitter into a bowl of water (if you don\u2019t have glitter you can use pepper instead ). Whilst we did this, we discussed how the glitter represented the germs. We then dipped our fingertips into the water and watched how the glitter stuck to our finger, this showed us how germs stick to our hands if we don\u2019t wash them with soap. The children then dipped their clean finger into soapy water before dipping it back into the bowl. The children were amazed to see how the glitter\/germs spread \u00a0across the water avoiding their soapy finger.<\/p>\n

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\u201c Germs stuck to our finger\u201d \u00a0\u201cGerms don\u2019t like soap\u201d<\/p>\n

We concluded that if we use soap to wash our hands, we can avoid germs. This experiment also developed our well-being skill by learning how to keep clean and healthy.<\/p>\n

It was fun and enjoyable to create these \u00a0memorable science experiences for the children, so why not continue British science week at home over the weekend and perhaps send us some photographs of you budding scientists!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s Friday, what better way to end the week with a science experiment. Well, it is British Science Week! Today in the Discovery Room, in our technology area, we have decided to do a milk food colouring experiment on the light table. For this experiment \u00a0we gathered everything we needed-a bowl, milk, food colouring, fairy … Continue reading Milk and Germ Science Experiment<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38018,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187,135],"tags":[446699,446165,446174,135,446625],"class_list":["post-20458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-and-wellbeing","category-science","tag-finemotorskills","tag-curiosity","tag-experiments","tag-science","tag-stem"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38018"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20458"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20481,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20458\/revisions\/20481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/cartmill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}