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Science Investigative Journal Activity 1

The document outlines a Grade 7 science activity focused on the concept of density and the role of carbon dioxide in making objects lighter. It describes an experiment using baking soda and vinegar to make raisins 'dance' by creating bubbles that attach to the raisins, causing them to float. The activity includes a hypothesis, materials needed, procedure, and sections for observation and conclusion.

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Science Investigative Journal Activity 1

The document outlines a Grade 7 science activity focused on the concept of density and the role of carbon dioxide in making objects lighter. It describes an experiment using baking soda and vinegar to make raisins 'dance' by creating bubbles that attach to the raisins, causing them to float. The activity includes a hypothesis, materials needed, procedure, and sections for observation and conclusion.

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Science Investigative journal Activity – 1

Grade 7

Pockets of air or gases within solid materials make many things (both natural
and man-made) less dense. Air spaces in boats make a boat able to float on
water. Life jackets are filled with spongy material with lots of air spaces that
make the overall jacket less dense and more able to float on water and hold up a
person. Sponge and pumice are natural materials that can float because they are
less dense than water due to the millions of tiny air spaces they contain.

Carbon dioxide, created as a result of acid-base chemical reactions, is important


in baking to make bubbles form in cakes or cookies as they are baking. This
helps make cakes and cookies light and spongy, rather than heavy and dense.

Let’s do a simple investigation to study how presence of carbon dioxide make


objects lighter.

Dancing raisins Experiment


Objective: To make raisins dance using baking soda and vinegar.

Hypothesis: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Materials required:
Clear container, Water, Baking soda, Vinegar, raisins/rice/spaghetti pieces, Spoon,
food colour(optional)
Procedure:
1. Pour one cup of water into your clear container.
2. Add 1 teaspoon of baking soda to the water and stir.
3. Sprinkle some Raisins into the mixture. Observe what happens to the Raisins?
Why do you think this happens?
4. Add 1 tablespoon of vinegar to the water. Observe again what happens? Why?
5. Observe what happens over the next few minutes.
6. As the chemical reaction slows down, add a little more baking soda and watch
what happens. Then try adding more vinegar. Can you make the Raisins continue
to dance?
7. Repeat the experiment with rice/spaghetti.

Observation:
Substance used Control (Baking soda Test (Baking soda with
alone) vinegar)
Raisins

Result: When vinegar is added to baking soda, Raisins becomes _______ and I
could see them ___________, because of the presence of _________________.
Conclusion:
1) When you place the raisins in the baking soda, the raisins __________ because
they are _______________than the baking soda.
2) When you add Vinegar to baking soda, ______________ bubbles produced
attach to the wrinkled surface of the raisins, the raisins begin to _____________
because the soda bubbles help increase the _______________of the raisins.
Variables in this experiment:
Independent variable
Dependent variable
Control variable

Evidence (Photo) of my Experiment

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