Sixth Grade Science Experiments
Elementary Fun With Chemistry
The sixth grade classes were able to take a break from their science book and have some fun with acids and bases, exothermic reactions, and snow. The students experienced the effects of mixing an acid with a base by mixing baking soda with vinegar. In this experiment, they discovered that when an acid and a base combine neutralization occurs. When the base neutralized the acid, water, salt, and carbon dioxide were formed.
The sixth graders were sent on a search for elephants during their next experiment. It was probably a good thing they didn’t find any, but it wasted a lot of elephant toothpaste. During this experiment, they combined hydrogen peroxide, dish soap, food coloring, and yeast to see a steady stream of elephant sized toothpaste cascade from a soda bottle. They also were able to feel the exothermic reaction that occurred.
In their final experiment, the sixth graders had fun making snow. Since snow had not been forecast, we decided we should make our own. The snow we made was a polymer formed from long chains of carbon atoms. The best thing about the snow was it would not melt, the water in it could be evaporated, and they can make it snow again and again and again simply by adding water.
Click on the links below to see slide shows of the sixth grades students during their science experiments.
