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DRC

May 3, 2021 @ 3:00 pm - May 7, 2021 @ 5:00 pm

This week the youth will be building volcanoes, making baking soda paint, and drawing stain glass chalk art. The objective of doing the volcanoes and making the baking soda paint is to learn about how vinegar is an acid and baking soda is a base and when they are combined they make a gas called carbon dioxide. The stain glass chalk art is to bring out the artistic side of the youth. 

Chemical Reactions lesson plan

 

Objective:

  • Baking soda is a base, and vinegar is an acid. When the two combine, they make a gas called carbon dioxide. You can hear the fizz, see the bubbles, and even feel the fizz if you hold your hand close to the surface of the paper

 

Material:

  • Black cardstock or heavyweight paper
  • Baking Soda
  • Vinegar
  • Spray bottle or pipette
  • Craft Paint
  • Cups and mixing utensils
  • Paintbrushes
  • Clay
  • Dishwashing Detergent
  • Food Coloring 
  • Plastic containers
  • Borax
  • Cornstarch 
  • White glue or blue or clear school glue 
  • Warm water
  • Measuring spoons
  • Marking pen

 

How to Play:

  1. One person who is “it” hides and everyone else looks for him.
  2. Each player that finds “it” joins him or her in the hiding place.
  3. As the players find “it,” one by one, they all crowd into the hiding place and end up packed together like sardines in a can (hence the name of the game). The last person to find the hiding place is the next one to be “it.”

 

Baking Soda Paint

Material:

  • Black cardstock or heavyweight paper
  • Baking Soda
  • Vinegar
  • Spray bottle or pipette
  • Craft Paint
  • Cups and mixing utensils
  • Paintbrushes

Instructions 

1: Fill up a small spray bottle with vinegar and set aside.

2: In a few separate cups, mix a 1/2 tablespoon of paint with a tablespoon of baking soda. 

3: Draw a circle on a piece of black cardstock. 

4: Use the paint brushes to paint the Moon with different shades of blue (the paint should be thick). Let your Moon dry.

5: Once the moon painting is completely dry, use the spray bottle to spray with some vinegar it should start to fizz up.

 

 

Baking Soda Volcano

 

Materials:

  • Clay
  • Cardboard
  • Food Coloring 
  • Plastic Containers
  • Vinegar
  • Dishwashing Detergent 
  • Baking Soda

 

Instructions:

  1. Fill the empty drink bottle most of the way full with hot tap water.
  2. Add a squirt of dishwashing detergent and some baking soda (~2 tablespoons). If desired, you can add a few drops of food coloring.
  3. Set the drink bottle in the center of a pan or deep dish.
  4. Press the dough around the bottle and shape it to look like a volcano.
  5. Be careful not to plug the opening of the bottle.
  6. You may wish to dribble some food coloring down the sides of your volcano. When the volcano erupts, the “lava” will flow down the sides and will pick up the coloring.
  7. Paint Volcano and allow to dry
  8. When you are ready for the eruption, pour some vinegar into the bottle (which contains hot water, dishwashing detergent, and baking soda).
  9. Make the volcano erupt again by adding more baking soda. Pour in more vinegar to trigger the reaction.

Details

Start:
May 3, 2021 @ 3:00 pm
End:
May 7, 2021 @ 5:00 pm
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