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Science Carnival

You and your family are invited to:

What? The 3rd Annual SCIENCE Carnival

For? Tour of the Science Fair Projects & Free, Fun Experiments

Where? Somerset Elementary School

When? Friday, February 10, 2006

Time? 5:30-8:30pm (Be an Early Bird!)

Sponsor? Somerset PTSA, YSW Committee

Did you know? Somerset Students chose this year's experiments:

• Leery Lizards

• Sew a Pocket

• Invent Ice Cream

• Paper Airplane Comparison

• Soak, Slide or Pile Up

• Make 1 Fossil, Get 1 Free

• Core a Sedimentary Sandwich

• Spinners; Goldfish & Guppies

• Test Your Lung Capacity

• Flash

• Make Lemon Soda

• Erosion

• Make Oobleck

Try These Experiments at Home!

If you enjoyed going to the Science Carnival last year, why not continue having fun with science at home. Here are the links to all of our 2005 Science Carnival experiments plus a few extra experiments that you might enjoy trying:

• Aluminum Boats

• Anti-Gravity Mirror

• Balloon Rockets (Send a balloon speeding up a string when air is
  released.)

• Black Magic (Find out the colors of ink using chromatography)

• Bone Stress

• Bubble Bomb -(Mix baking soda and vinegar in a bag to see it explode.)

• Bubble Suspension

• Downhill Race

• Exploding Volcanoes (Use acid/base reaction with soap to make a
  volcano.)

• Flip Sticks

• Gak (see recipe below)

• Geodesic Gumdrops (Use gumdrops, marshmallows, and toothpicks to build shapes.)

• Glue Stick Sunset

• Hoopster

• Laser Jello

• Lava Light (Build your own lava light using salt, oil and water.)

• Magnetic Lines of Force

• Outrageous Ooze (Feel how corn starch changes as water is added to it)

• Oil Slick (Clean up an oil spill.)

• Paper Airplane

• Pepper Scatter (Pepper in water - how does it react when soap is
  introduced?)

• Scream for Ice Cream (Make homemade ice cream by shaking it.)

• Sense of Taste

• Spaghetti Bridge

• Take it From the Top (Shift the top block over as far as it will go
  without knocking over a stack of blocks.)
   

You Can Make GAK at Home

Recipe for Glue Polymer reagents:
Elmer’s glue (50/50 glue/water)
Borax soap solution (Found in the laundry section of the supermarket)
1/8th teaspoon soap plus 1 tablespoon water
Food coloring dyes, Measuring spoon, Cup, Stick

Recipe
1) Put 2 tablespoons of diluted glue into the cup.
2) Add 4 drops of food coloring. Stir with stick to mix in color.
3) Add ½-¾ tablespoon of borax soap solution. Stir with stick.
After 30 seconds of stirring remove from the cup; knead thoroughly.

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