Tuesday, 24 June 2014

Volcanic Eruptions

We have had some excellent homework submitted this week, which included a range of beautiful carnival masks.
 
One pupil made a super volcanic experiment and we created our own eruption today.
 
Made simply with Jelly, Bicarbonate of Soda and Vinegar, the children witnessed superb results.
 
 
After turning out a jelly mould, we filled a centre hole with Bicarbonate of Soda. This proved to be tricker than it looked and took several attempts!
 
 
 
 
Once the hole was filled, with a little over spill, Samantha prepared her vinegar and food colouring mixture.
 
 
 
This was injected into the side with magnificent results.
 
 
 
After a few injections, Mrs Warland couldn't resist the temptation to make the volcano fully erupt so poured some vinegar over the surface of the volvano.
 
 
 
We were left with a bubbling mess that dried into igneous rock formations!

4 comments:

  1. When did you do this!? I can't believe I missed all of this exciting work! It looks like you all had a lot of fun, Year 4. Tell me: what did you learn?

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    1. Samantha brang in a volcano an got jelly,buble gum i cant remember the outher things that she brang in.
      CHARLIE YR4 NEYMAR JR FAN AND BRAZIL.

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  2. Fantastic idea to make the volcano out of jelly and inject the vinegar! I wonder if we could make a really big version? Mrs Warland, did you resist the temptation to eat any of this science exhibit?

    Daniel's mum

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  3. I did resist the idea of munching my way through the jelly although I did feel the urge to buy some on the way home for pudding! We are hoping to make a larger version in the next few weeks out of soil instead of jelly....I'm not sure if I could get a funnel big enough for a mold!

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