Making Ginger Beer

 Aim:

I want to find out how to (brew)make ginger beer.

Research:

How to make Alcohol

How to make Ginger beer

Fermentation

Method:

Equipment

• Plastic Cup
• Marker
• Powder ginger
• Water
• Sugar
• Spoon

Instructions

1. Get your equipment
2. Put your name on a cup
3. Put half a teaspoon of ginger into the cup.
4. add a half cup of water.
5. Add one tablespoon of sugar into the cup
6. Mix it with a spoon
7. Five drops of lemon juice.
8. Taste it and adjust the flavor.
9. Add one quarter of a teaspoon of yeast.
10. Let it brew for one week.

Result: 

It doesn't really have a flavor but you could taste the worst flavor of it. It has a taste that if I you drink more you will throw up. It's hard to describe the flavor because it barely has a flavor but it makes you not liking it.

Discussions:

What does fermentation mean?  Fermentation is a chemical breakdown 

What are the best conditions for brewing?

What is the difference between beer, cider, wine, vodka, whiskey? 

Lighting a Bunsen Burner

 Aim: 

I want to find out how to SAFELY light a Bunsen Burner.

Method:

Equipment:

• Bunsen Burner
• Heat mat 
• Matches or lighter
• Safety glasses

Instructions

Bunsen Burner

1. Get your equipment
2. Put on your safety glasses
3. Connect the hose to the gas tap.
4.  Turn the collar to close the air hole.
5. Light the matches and hold on top of the barrel.
6. Turn the gas on.
7. Turn the collar to open the air hole.
8. When finished turn off the gas tap.

Results:

Edible Slime

 Aim: 

I want to find out how to make an edible slime, without getting posioned.

Research: 

Method:

Equipment:

• 400g grams of Nutella
• Bowl
• 400gCornstarch
• Spoon.

Instructions:

1. Get all of your equipment.
2. Place the bowl on the table.
3. Open the Nutella and put it all of the Nutella on the bowl.
4. Put 1 tablespoon of cornstarch on the bowl where you putted the Nutella in.
5. Mix the corn starch and Nutella with the spoon.
6. If the Nutella doesn't feels like slime add one  spoon of cornstarch again  and mix it.
7. After you mixed  it, feel the Nutella if it feels like slime. If it doesn't feel like slime repeat the process until it feels like slime.
8. When it feels like slime eat it.

Skittle Colours

 Aim: 

I want to find out what happens when you put Skittles in water.

Method: 

Equipment:

• 8x Skittles
• Warm Water
• Petri Dish
• Beaker
• Paper towel

Instructions:

1. Get your Equipment.
2. Put the skittles into the Petri dish.
3. Spread them out around the sides.
4. Clean the beaker.
5. Gently pour the water in the middle of the petri dish so that it is half full.
6. Observe what happens.

Describe what happened? 

 After I poured the warm water into the skittles. I  saw the skittles colors slowly flowing to the middle  of the petri and the bottom of the skittles colors slowly fading away.

Paper-in-Air Challenge

 Aim:

I want to find out how to keep a piece of paper in the air he longest.

Method:

Equipment:

• A4 Paper

Instructions:

 

Milk to plastic

 Aim:

I want to find out how to turn milk into plastic.

How to turn milk into plastic

Method:

Equipment:

• Bunsen Burner
• Beaker
• Milk 236ml
• White vinegar 19ml
• 4x Paper towels 
• Tripod
• Stirring rod.
• Measuring cylinder
• Funnel

Instructions:

1. Get or gather all of your equipment.
2. Once you got all of your equipment, Pour the milk into your beaker until it reach 236 ml.
3.  Get your tripod, gauze mat  and bunsen burner then set it up with your teacher.
4. Put your beaker with milk on the tripod. Then take it out when the milk is steaming.
5. Pour your vinegar into a new beaker and stop pouring the vinegar when it reaches 19ml.
6. Add the hot milk that you heated up to the other beaker where the vinegar is at.
7. Stir the milk and vinegar with your stirring rod.
8. Get a funnel and put a paper towel inside the funnel.
9. Pour the beaker with milk and vinegar you mixed in the funnel. 
10. Once all of the liquid is drained put 4 paper towel on a table and take the paper towel out the funnel and put it on the table with 4 paper towel.
11. Fold the paper towel until the curds is dry.
12. Mould the dough an shape you want.

Mentos in Coke

Aim:

I want to find out what happens when you drop Mentos into Coke.

Research:

Mentos in coke

100 layers of mentos in coke

Mehod

Equipment:

• Coke, Coke No Sugar, Sprite
• Mint mentos
• Detergent.
• Beaker
• Safety Glasses
• Measuring cylinder

Instructions:

1. Get all of your equipment.
2.  Put on your safety glasses
3. Grab your measuring cylinder.
4. Measure 30ml of coke into your measuring cylinder.
5. Measure 10 ml of detergent into your another measuring cylinders.
6. Record your result.