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MUST TRY Science Experiments with Honey

• October 16, 2020
• Science Experiments

Today, we are going to discover the science in our everyday eating experiences! Sounds interesting and exciting, right?

Well, have you ever wondered of exploring science using a sweet and viscous food substance originated from honey bees ? Yes, that is HONEY.

Science Experiments with Honey

Are you excited to learn? Let us begin with our super cool science experiments with honey.

1. Making a Density Column Honey Science Experiments

Showing kids about density science concept is not too hard anymore! Here is the fascinating experiment that teaches kids about how density works using different liquids including honey in an easy way. Also it shows a great demonstration on how density works out along with floating using simple ingredients. Children in grades 3-4 and even older children can have a great visual witness on creating density column.

Learn more about this simple science activity here: Making a Density Column Honey Science Experiments

2. What do ants like to eat Science Activity?

A great visual demonstration to teach kids about what do ants like to eat. This amazing experiment relates to our kid’s everyday activities in a fun way. Best way to engage and entertain our children with this super simple science activity that teaches kids learn about different kinds of ants and their different kinds of food habits.

Click here to find more information about ants through this simple science activity: What do ants like to eat Science Activity?

3. Conversation Heart Candy Science Experiments

Experimenting with candies is the most fun and popular way to discover simple science concepts. In this experiment we are using conversation heart candies in a great way to get kids to think like a scientist and practice their problem solving skills! Adults also get the chance to explain kids about their correct and in correct predictions. Amazing!

Find more details of the experiment by clicking on Convers ation Heart Candy Science Experiments

4. Classic Yeast Science Experiment

Kids get encouraged to have fun learning experience while exploring foods that we eat every day! An easy and excellent way to set up an experiment showing kids about how yeast works out using different types of sugars along with other simple Kitchen supplies. You may wondered of how honey is going to explain about yeast science! Want to learn how yeast works in an entertaining way!? You need to click on Classic Yeast Science Experiment to get more information in detail about the instructions and science involved.

5. Exploring Viscosity Science Experiment

Using 3-4 easily available kitchen hold items, kids are going to learn about an important science concept Viscosity with a great visual demonstration. Kids will get to know learn and explore different types of liquids and also ask them to compare liquids by dropping a marble through them. This is also a great opportunity to practice drawing and using tables, as well as making predictions beforehand.

Get the simple step-by-step instructions of this super classic experiment here: Exploring Viscosity Science Experiment

6. Rainbow Jar Kid’s Science Experiment

Kid’s fun science and the most popular activity in creating a rainbow in a jar using simple household items. There’s no need for any magic – just 100% kid-friendly science activity through which kids can create a rainbow in ajar. Kids of all ages can perform this easy experiment on their own. In addition, this awesome experiment explains that different liquids have different weights. How cool is it!

Check out this fantastic simple science experiment with step-by-step instructions here: Rainbow Jar Kid’s Science Experiment

Get the golden syrup, honey ready and set up your experiment table! Easy to set up and no messy work experiments offering great visual demonstrations. You can do these science experiments with children of all age groups. Preschoolers and toddlers will love to explore honey hands-on! Happy Experimenting!

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Legos, honey, and ping pong balls: A fun experiment with density

• February 1, 2020
• In brief : layer liquids and drop in different solids to watch density in action.
• Time needed : 15-20 minutes
• Skills encouraged : Experimentation, Curiosity, Scientific thinking
• Age : 5 to adult

Why do things float or sink?

This is one of the easiest experiments we’ve done, and everyone loved it. The end result is a liquid rainbow that appears to magically suspend objects in its different layers.

Here’s what you’ll need :

• A tall clear glass
• Liquid honey
• Cooking oil
• Food coloring (blue works well)
• A lego brick
• A ping pong ball

Find a space where a little spill isn’t a big deal. Like your kitchen floor, or a table with a plastic cover. This isn’t a messy experiment, but just in case.

1. Fill about 1/3 of the glass with water . Add food coloring (optional, but cooler) and stir it up.

2. Squeeze in some liquid honey , about another third of the glass. Which is denser, the honey or the water? (hint: the denser one goes to the bottom)

3. Add the cooking oil . We used olive oil because that’s what kitchens in Barcelona have. But any oil should do the trick. Is the oil more or less dense than the water and honey?

You should now have some pretty neat looking liquid layers. Your kids, like mine, may ask if they can drink it. Saying something like “sure, as long as you clean the floor after you throw up” will probably deter them.

4. Drop objects into the glass carefully, one by one.

Ping pong ball…

Pet fish… kidding

You should now have something that looks like this:

Pretty cool, right?

5. Explore some more . Drop a few more objects into the glass. Try a raisin, a marshmallow, your homework. But wait! Before you drop, hypothesize. Where do you think the object will rest—on the oil, water, honey? Why? Take your best guess, then drop away.

So what’s going on here? To understand, we’re going to need to dive deep inside each object.

Everything around us is made of atoms. Water, honey, grapes, legos, tables, trees, clouds, dogs, people, and ping pong balls—all full of atoms.

To understand why things sink or float, you have to compare how packed together the atoms are inside of things.

Let’s start with water and a lego brick. If you look deep inside these objects with a special microscope, you’ll see their atoms. But look closely. Notice that the atoms in the water (on the left) are more tightly packed together than the atoms in lego (on the right).

In the same amount of space, the water has more atoms. That’s what density is: how packed atoms are together in a given space. And the thing with more tightly packed atoms is the denser object.

If the lego is denser than the water, it will sink to the bottom. If it’s less dense than the water, it will float. So if we throw our lego brick into the water and…

It floats, of course, because it’s less dense than the water.

Now let’s go back to the colored layers in our glass, Why does the honey sink to the bottom of the glass while the oil floats at the top? Why does a grape fall through the water but sit on top of the honey?

You guessed it: density. The different liquids and objects all have different densities, so they all stack up in different places. The grape is denser than water but less dense than honey. The lego brick is denser than oil but less dense than water. And so on.

Let’s grab our special microscope and have a look through different eyes.

Expand your thinking

Think about other things that float or sink. Any surprises come to mind?

Here’s one: how does a gigantic Disney cruise ship, carrying 4,000 passengers and weighing up to 130,000 tons stay afloat?

There’s a secret in the belly of the boat: lots of open spaces.

The average density of the ship includes the weight of the ship plus all the empty spaces on board. So engineers design cruise ships to have lots of open spaces filled with air, making the overall ship less dense.

There’s a related thing going on that helps ships stay afloat, and it has to do with a force called buoyancy . Whereas gravity wants to pull an object down to the bottom of the ocean, the buoyant force of the water pushes the object back up.

Basically the ship is designed to push water out of its way while it moves forward. When the water gets pushed out of the way, it quickly rushes back in to try to fill the space it’s been pushed out of. And as it does, it creates an upward lift that pushes up on the boat—buoyancy. As long as water pushed away by the ship weighs more than the boat, it stays afloat.

→ Have more fun with buoyancy in this dancing raisins experiment.

You can see a similar trick in action in your own belly. Next time you’re in the swimming pool take a huge gigantic breath of air and hold it in. Now lay back in the water. Do you float or sink? Now blow all the air out of your lungs and lay back again. What happens? Down you go, glub, glub, glub.

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