Last week we went to Living Spring for 3 days.
Camp was lots of fun
We did lots of activities but I chose to draw one of my favorite activity that we did at Living Spring.
Some of my favorite activities were bouldering, mountain boarding, archery tag and lots more but I chose to do bouldering because it was fun. I liked playing around the world were we had to try go around the whole wall of rock climbing. Have you ever tried bouldering?
Today in inquiry we were learning about the Sun. We did an experiment to model how the Sun produces light and heat.
We used a tray, lighter, alcohol, icing sugar and baking soda. We also used the sand from the sandpit to make a mountain and a hole in the middle. We put the icing sugar, alcohol and baking soda in the hole.
When we went to light the flax on fire for the experiment it failed again, and again, because the wind blew it out. The same thing happened again with a dried leaf so we got some paper, but it failed again. We tried it again with the paper and it worked.
What I saw when the paper got lit I saw it make a fire and it grew bigger and bigger it was cool and the fire was very bright.
Then I saw the icing sugar, baking soda and the alcohol turn into charcoal.
It smelt like burnt marshmallows when you catch the marshmallow on fire and it burns.
It happens because when the sugar is heated it releases energy and heat and pushes out the gases, just like the sun.
Question: Would you try this experiment?