During our inquiry of - the structure of matter - Room 1 made Oobleck!
What is Oobleck?
Oobleck is a non-Newtonian substance - which means that can behave like a solid or a liquid depending on how much pressure you apply to it.
How do you make Oobleck?
Oobleck ingredients
- 1 part water
- 1.5 to 2 parts cornstarch
- Small amount of food coloring (optional)
Mix ingredients
- Start with the water in a bowl (or wading pool!) and add the cornstarch a bit at a time.
- Keep stirring until it has a gooey consistency. You may want to use your hands.
- When the oobleck is just right, slowly add food coloring, if you want. This can be a challenge to get it mixed properly.
- Play with it.
Before we made Oobleck - Room 1 made predictions about how it might react of behave when we do different things to it.
When we made it, it was lots of fun!
Miss Oldridge got a little too excited with the food colouring and...
It turned our hands GREEN!
After our experiment we recording our results and concluded if our predictions were correct.
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