The Wonderful World of Bubbles
The Wonderful World of Bubbles - The Material World
- This science show facilitates the exploration of identifying, classifying and investigating materials. Students will get an understanding of mixtures, how they can separate and how they can come together to create a reaction! During this show, we journey together through the scientific process of guessing (predicting), trying it out (testing) and seeing what happens (observations). And of course ... ++there's giant bubbles++!
- 45 minute science show. Developed for Years 0-4.
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Discussion Starters ...
- Did you see different colours in the bubbles? Watch as Science in a Van blows some GIANT bubbles and talks about what we can see.
- Emily put water and dish washing liquid together and made a mixture. How many things can we use this mixture for?
- When we mix water and cooking oil together - we observed that the yellow cooking oil went to the top of the bottle. Why do you think that happened.... even after we shook the bottle? Do you know of other things/materials that float?
- Near the end of show, Alan put helium inside some bubbles. Did they go up or down? Why did they behave differently to the other bubbles? Is helium lighter or heavier than the air around it? Why do you think that?
- In the show we saw water, oil, bubble mixture and cooking oil - these are all 'liquids'. This means that they can pour and take the shape of the container they go into. Can you think of any other liquids? What would happen if we mixed some of them together? Shall we try it?
- Remember - question, have a think (prediction/guess), test it out, make observations (use your senses, what's are we experiencing?) and then onto explanations (why did this happen?) .... and then you can start the cycle again as you'll probably have more questions :)
Science in a Van's 'Wonderful World of Bubbles' science show
Use the timestamps below to watch the Science in a Van team recap the concepts used in the show
2:36 Overview of 'The Wonderful World of Bubbles' science show
3:48 What is a mixture?
4:29 Explore a simple mixture - water and dishwashing liquid.
5:20 Thinking like scientists - the scientific process in a easy peasy way!
6:27 Oil and water mixture - separation
9:14 Vinegar and Baking Soda - Reaction (chat about the properties of materials, observations, carbon dioxide, sodium acetate in water) 12:52 The air we breathe is a mixture of gases
14:30 Extra content - comparing carbon dioxide, helium and the air we breathe
