Will It Dissolve? experiment

  Starting out with the "Will it dissolve?" experiment, I first had to think of how to explain what "dissolve" means. I decided on using a melting, or dissolving, ice cube as an example. Then Kay filled up the ice cube tray I had ready with water and we started looking for things to try out.

  I offered Jello, pepper, bread, candy sprinkles, and a marshmallow. She wanted to try a small cookie, uncooked macaroni, ketchup, a chocolate chip, spaghetti, and seasoning. I wanted to give her leeway to try what she wanted, but the spaghetti and ketchup was pretty disgusting when dropped in the water (the bread was no treat either!). We also tried sugar sprinkles, which dissolved almost immediately and left the water a pretty color, so we added some more.

In the end, most of what we added didn't dissolve, but we talked about how the water made some of the things softer. (She ate the marshmallow, which was slippery, and the chocolate chip, which was still hard, just to make sure.)

   Time for the Saturday Science Blog Hop! Be sure to hop on over to check out these other science ideas:

                 Little Bins for Little Hands is doing a Solids, Liquids and Gasses Experiment for Preschoolers 
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