With all the excitement of Christmas we thought we would do a festive experiment. Our questions –Which liquid will cause our candy cane to disappear the fastest?
To conduct our experiment, we needed: 4 plastic cups, 4 candy canes, vinegar, warm water, milk and cold water.
We labelled our 4 clear cups and then filled the cups with warm water, cold water, milk and vinegar.
Then, we made predictions. The vast majority thought the warm water would melt the candy cane the quickest!
We put one candy cane in each cup and watched to see what would happen.
Within 2 minutes all three candy canes were starting to turn the liquids pink or red. It was definitely magic!
We observed the four cups and compared the reactions. After break, we had our results and we could determine if our predictions were correct or correct.
The cup with the warm water was the fastest liquid to make the candy cane dissolve.
The vinegar cup was the first liquid to remove all the red from the candy cane.
The cold water and milk removed the colour and disappeared but more slowly than other two liquids.
Next, we recorded our observations and results. We learned lots of new vocabulary words such as dissolve, prediction, result.
By the next morning, all the candy canes had dissolved into the liquids.
Even more interestingly and in the interest of science we discovered later that the quickest way to make a candy cane disappear was to eat it!!!
