Yesterday for science we ( Me Keah and Gemeve ) done a skittle experiment we started with a little clear lid and base and filled it up with water about 3 quarters full. Then we got to grab up to 5 skittles we started with one of each colour red,orange,yellow,green and purple we placed them all round the water and watched the colour from the skittles fade away into the water. When all of them were finished we flipped them over gently so that the colour didn't mix. Once all of them finished we noticed how the colours stayed in their own little bubble of colour all of them formed into a little triangle in the corner of where they were placed. We mixed the colours together and it just made an ugly brown, then we done another one, The same thing happened to the second one. But we done it with orange and yellow skittles. :) Here's a little bit of some questions we answered.
Skittle Observations
Instructions:
¾ fill a petri dish with water.
Carefully place 4 differently coloured skittles evenly spaced around the outside of the petri dish.
Watch...
Observations
What things did you notice? Can you make five observations?
The colours faded from the skittles.
the skittles made lines in the water from where the skittle colour faded.
It coloured the water.
the water made the skittles drain the water
The coloured water mixed together and made an ugly colour
Did anything surprise you? What weren’t you expecting to observe?
No-Keah
I wasn’t expecting the colours to stay in their own bubble I thought they would automatically merge with their neighbours boarders and make a mixed colour line where they joined. - Ayla
Not really- Gemeve
Wonderings
What questions arose in your mind as you did this activity?
what colour is more dominant
Why was the lines forming in the water from the skittles- Gemeve
Well done Ayla I like your observations and wonderings. Its amazing to see the pattern produced by the skittles.
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