{"id":154,"date":"2016-01-21T20:45:54","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T03:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mslangille\/?p=154"},"modified":"2016-06-08T21:00:48","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T04:00:48","slug":"a-colour-symphony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mslangille\/a-colour-symphony\/","title":{"rendered":"A Colour Symphony!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the next few weeks my 123s and I are learning about the scientific method so that we can do our own mini science projects for the science fair at the beginning of March. As a class, we wrote our materials, the procedure, our predictions, our observations and the conclusion\/explanation for the experiment we did this morning called &#8220;A Colour Symphony&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Materials: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5;\">A flat tray (like a cookie baking tray)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;\">Food colouring (we used 4\u00a0different colours)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;\">Whole milk \u2013 low fat milk will not work for this experiment<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;\">Dish\u00a0soap\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Procedure:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5;\">Carefully pour the milk into the tray so that it just covers the bottom<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Add about 6-8 drops of different coloured food colouring onto the milk in different spots<\/li>\n<li>Add ~5-7 drops of the liquid soap onto the drops of food colouring<\/li>\n<li>To clean up, pour the coloured milk down the drain<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-155 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mslangille\/files\/2016\/01\/IMG_7352-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7352\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mslangille\/files\/2016\/01\/IMG_7352-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mslangille\/files\/2016\/01\/IMG_7352.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-156 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mslangille\/files\/2016\/01\/IMG_7353-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7353\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mslangille\/files\/2016\/01\/IMG_7353-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mslangille\/files\/2016\/01\/IMG_7353.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Prediction: \u00a0<\/strong>&#8220;the colours will swirl together&#8221;, &#8220;nothing will happen&#8221;, &#8220;the soap is heavy&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Observation: <\/strong>when the dish soap is added&#8230;.&#8221;All of the colours scatter out at\u00a0once&#8221;, &#8220;tie dye!&#8221;, &#8220;creates rings of colour&#8221;, &#8220;beautiful colors&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Explanation: <\/strong>Dish soap goes\u00a0after the fat and breaks it down. Usually the fat is on dishes from the food we eat, but fat is also in whole milk. When you drop the liquid soap onto the tray, it tries to break down the fat in the milk. While it was doing that, it causes the colours\u00a0to scatter and mix creating\u00a0a colour symphony!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the next few weeks my 123s and I are learning about the scientific method so that we can do our own mini science projects for the science fair at the beginning of March. 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