Science Experiments

SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS

Coal Mining

Learning engagement:

The activity is designed to help students experience the limited nature of non-renewable fuel resources and issues of predicting how long fossil fuel resources will last. Students will mine a cookie for “coal” (chocolate chips) and compare the estimated amount of chocolate chip reserves with the actual amount recovered.

Oil Spills

Students were given a cup each with some water and a teaspoon of cooking oil was added into it. They were first asked to weigh a feather’s lightness and then they dipped the feather into the water and oil solution. Feather was heavy now. They were then asked to clean it using a cotton ball and then a plastic spoon. They were surprised to find out that it’s impossible to take the oil out. After watching some videos they were taken aback to understand the plight of marine birds and how harmful can oil & waste spilling be into the oceans and rivers. They repeated the experiment by using an ice-cream stick.