Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Let's give a hand to the Deviants!

The boys froze water.


in balloons.


and latex gloves.


For the purpose of THROWING them and watching them shatter.
(and drinking the not-yet-frozen-water out of them)

They watched the water bubbles move inside them and looked the air bubbles inside, too


I have some Chemistry DVDs from Netflix. They are the Standard Deviants ones. I have the boys watching them this week, as kind of an overview before we get back into the DVD course. I was watching them watch them and listening to Gavin who is re-explaining pretty much everything, with more detail and more examples. So, I wonder why I even bother teaching him. This is how it has been his whole life. He always seems to already know what I get ready to teach him. I think he should be my co-teacher for this course. (we are using Apologia High School Chemistry DVD Course)

I just need a place to list all my planned experiments all together. to make it easy for me to gather everything we need.
These are pretty much the NON-DVD Experiments (demonstrations).
just for me to remember.

Make Black Snakes (fireworks):
http://chemistry.about.com/od/chemistryhowtoguide/a/blacksnakes.htm


Magnetic breakfast Cereal
Sulfur & Iron mix

Vinegar & Egg thing


NI3 explosion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt9xCq0Dq9o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L436Rx42jXg


Burning Money (combustion)
http://chemistry.about.com/od/demonstrationsexperiments/ss/burnmoney.htm

Jam Jar Pulse Jet Engine: (just because it's fun)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AePLpM5SnqE&feature=related

Experiments/Demos downloaded from: http://www.nclark.net/ChemicalReactions

Burn Ice Cubes: http://chemistry.about.com/od/funfireprojects/a/iceonfire.htm
Make Hot Ice: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC-KOYQsIvU

Simple Colored Flames: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nfii6r-ul-c
More Chemicals to use: http://chemistry.about.com/od/analyticalchemistry/a/flametest.htm

I need to find someone to go in with for buying these chemicals!!

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5 comments:

XLMIC said...

I'll definitely be checking out some of those links later... but I wanted to say my kids LOVE freezing things. They save them in the freezer for YEARS. I will tell them how fun it is to smash them... we need some space in the freezer.

Jamerrill @ Holy Spirit-led Homeschooling said...

Whoa! We've GOT to do this :) The ballons are soooo cool!!! Thanks!

www.holyspiritledhomeschooling.net

Juli said...

Vinegar and egg thing... sounds very scientifical. :)

But that Hot ice thing... AWESOME!

Unknown said...

Love all of these ideas!
Boys are so fun becasue they enjoy all the hands on activities. I don't homeschool....but I have 2 boys and 1 girl. My son had a blast with his Science Fair project this year by creating "protection" for about a half dozen raw eggs and seeing what protected better from a 10 ft drop. We used baggies to house each "nest". Bubble wrap, Styrofoam balls, balloons....
I'm gladly a new follower.
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Unknown said...

Oh yeah, these are cool!! We heard this year that if you blow bubbles in sub-zero temps. they will freeze instantly and shatter when they fall. We get the sub-zeros here frequently in Montana so we can't wait to try it out!!

Thanks for stopping by my blog, I think I found you on Winecup's list of homeschooling-boy-bloggers! :-)

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