Food Science
The science behind the food you eat
Do you like to play with your food instead of eat it? Here are some experiments to help you test, explore and learn about your food.
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Mentos Diet Coke Geyser
Drop Mentos into a bottle of soda and run away from the 20 foot geyser
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Bubble Gum Science
Get ready for a lesson in the science of food polymers.
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Straw Through Potato
Learn about the power of air while playing with your food.
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Wintergreen Lifesavers Soda Geyser
How to use Wintergreen Lifesavers to create a soda explosion
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Walking on Eggs
Can you walk across eggs without cracking them?
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Shrinking Chip Bags
Create miniature chip bags in your microwave
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Berry pH Paper - Sick Science!
A homemade litmus test to detect acids and bases
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Double Dip Chip Challenge
Jack Spangler turns double-dipped chip dip into Petri pudding.
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Mentos Exploding Drink - The Hoax!
Can you freeze a Mento in an ice cube to play a practical joke?
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Color Changing Milk of Magnesia
How Antacids Work in Your Stomach
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Electric Pickle
The amazing electric pickle!
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Mentos Soda Pop Drop
The Super Soda Dispenser 3000 by Jack Spangler.
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Egg Science - Willow Creek Students
Students and teachers show their best egg-speriments.
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Seven Layer Density Column
Think of it as a science burrito…
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Pinch and Mix - Color Mixing
Combine science and literature using the book Mouse Paint
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Instant Freeze - Soda Ice
How liquid soda turns to instant ice when the bottle is opened
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Exploding Pumpkin
The self-carving pumpkin trick.
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