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Middle School Talent Quest

Well done to these talented performers!

Making Butter

Question: What happens when we shake cream?

Equipment: 500 ml cream, 3 glass jars with lids.

Method: We poured the cream into 3 jars until they were each about 1/3 full. We put the lids on tightly.

Next we took turns shaking the jars vigorously. After a while the cream turned into whipped cream. We kept on shaking the jars. Soon, the cream started to separate into watery milk and lumpy cream. We kept shaking the jars up and down hard until we could hear the water sloshing around and the cream had turned into butter.
The watery milk was buttermilk and the solid part was butter. We drained the buttermilk into another container.

We then spread the butter on freshly baked bread, then spread some jam on top of the butter. We all enjoyed a slice of delicious bread, butter and jam.

Milk and Detergent Experiment

On Tuesday Room 16 did an experiment about milk and detergent. Firstly we poured some dark blue topped milk into a plastic container. Next we put two drops of rose pink food colouring into the milk. Then Mrs. Armitage sucked some detergent in a straw but it didn’t go in her mouth. Then she let Evaine drop a tiny bit of detergent on the rose pink food coloring. Amazingly the food colouring started making patterns in the milk. Later we started doing the same thing with cream but the food coloring went slower on the cream. The detergent molecules didn’t know which way to go because they were attracted to water and fat at the same time. The detergent moved slower in the cream because there is more fat in cream than in milk.

Yeast Experiment

Ingredients: Yeast, sugar, warm water.
Equipment: bottle and balloon
Method:
Clean the bottle.
Put 2 tablespoons of warm water into the bottle.
Add 2 tablespoons of yeast to the bottle.
Put 1 teaspoon of sugar into the bottle.
Mix it together.
Put the balloon on top of the bottle.
Let the yeast and sugar rest by a sunny window sill.

Results: The balloon rose up because of the yeast, sugar and warm water. It created a carbon dioxide gas!

Milk Experiment

Milk Experiment

Question: Can we get the water out of milk?

Hypothesis: We don’t think we can get the water out of milk.

Equipment: 1 cup of milk, 1 Electric frying pan.

Method: First we turned on the frying pan. Then we poured our 1 cup of milk onto the pan. After that we put the lid on. Some steam rose up. When the steam hit the lid it turned back to water. Then we took the lid off and left the pan on a low heat.

Result: Water turned to steam and evaporated. After about an hour the milk turned solid.

Conclusion: Our hypothesis was wrong. We could get the water out of the milk.