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Ingredients
Ingredients10 min hands-on · Easy
Shake, separate, repeat
Can a good shake make oil and water stay together?
Let’s investigateThe experiment library
Start with
“What if?”
A few ingredients. A useful question. Something new to notice.
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Ingredients
Ingredients10 min hands-on · A little practice
Where did the crystals go?
Do equal masses of salt and sugar dissolve equally in a little water?
Let’s investigate03
Ingredients
Ingredients15 min hands-on · Easy
The apple investigation
How do water and lemon juice affect the visible browning of apple slices?
Let’s investigate04
Texture
Texture20 min hands-on · A little practice
From cream to something new
What changes when you keep shaking cream?
Let’s investigate05
Texture
Texture10 min hands-on · Easy
The great texture detective
How much can you discover about a food’s texture without tasting it?
Let’s investigate06
Ingredients
Ingredients15 min hands-on · A little practice
Change one thing
Does breaking a sugar cube change what you observe as it dissolves?
Let’s investigate07
Ingredients
Ingredients25 min hands-on · Easy
The color-changing cabbage
How does the same purple cabbage liquid respond to three food-based test liquids?
Let’s investigate08
Ingredients
Ingredients25 min hands-on · Easy
Where does the water travel?
Where can we see a colored-water trail inside a celery leaf stalk?
Let’s investigate09
Ingredients
Ingredients25 min hands-on · A little practice
The potato water investigation
How do matched potato pieces change after the same time in different salt solutions?
Let’s investigate10
Ingredients
Ingredients20 min hands-on · A little practice
The yeast bubble investigation
Does a defined addition of sugar change visible activity in warm baker’s yeast?
Let’s investigate11
Heat
Heat25 min hands-on · A little practice
From runny to thicker
How does a cooked-and-cooled cornstarch mixture compare with an unheated matching mixture?
Let’s investigate12
Heat
Heat20 min hands-on · Easy
The ice-and-surfaces challenge
How do two matched ice cubes change on room-temperature metal and plastic surfaces?
Let’s investigate13
Ingredients
Ingredients25 min hands-on · Easy
Same cup, different amount
Does a level measure of brown sugar have the same mass when it is loose or packed?
Let’s investigate14
Ingredients
Ingredients20 min hands-on · A little practice
Catch some air
How does electric whipping change the appearance of canned-chickpea liquid compared with leaving it still?
Let’s investigate15
Ingredients
Ingredients25 min hands-on · A little practice
Fruit and the wobbly gel
How does gelatin setting compare with fresh pineapple, canned pineapple or no fruit?
Let’s investigate16
Ingredients
Ingredients15 min hands-on · Easy
Whole leaf, bruised leaf
What do you notice when matched culinary mint leaves are left whole or gently bruised?
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