Today, I completed this week’s experiment with Eleanor. This task was to make some dancing raisins or something dancing up and down. For this experiment, I used sparkling soda water and food that are mostly small with a little bit of weight. I made a hypothesis on that sultanas, cut pieces of dried mango, and dried cranberry would. I wasn’t sure about chocolate drops and fresh peach would work or not. I predicted that banana chips that was broken into pieces and some fruit lollies.
I used a can of The Real McCoy Sparkling Apple and Cranberry juice and tested the 7 ingredients in different glasses with the same amount of soda. First, the banana chips floated and stayed on top as it was put in. Then the sultanas were put in, and they immediately sunk. After a minute or so, they rose and danced!
It was the same result for the dried cranberry. But when the mango was put in, the soda only fizzed which eventually died down, which resulted in the mango dead on the bottom. Surprisingly, the chocolate drops worked, and it performed as well as the sultanas and cranberries. It took a little longer for the cycle to repeat compared to the sultana and cranberry, but it didn’t melt like I thought. The peach was very interesting with the effect. It was heavy enough to sink at the start, just like any other working ingredients. But after a while, the peach floated and didn’t go back down. The real fruit lolly just sunk like I expected and it was like a rock.
In conclusion, the most suggested ingredients to do this experiments with would be sultanas, cranberries and chocolate drops. The ingredients that come up with an interesting result of the opposite of Titanic would be fresh peach. The ingredients that will absolutely not work would be banana chips, dried mango and real fruit lollies. The best tasting experiments with this would be the mango and the chocolate drops.
Here I am performing the experiment, tasting the experiment, and the badge.
Which part of this experiment do you prefer doing (setting up and watching or drinking and eating)?
Kia ora Isa,
It’s Charlotte again, a blog commenter for the Summer Learning Journey. Great job taking on the Experiments with Eleanor activity! I can see you put a lot of effort into it.
Well done on testing so many different foods in your experiment! I think it was awesome how you created a hypothesis and then tested your theory! Did the outcome of the experiment surprise you?
I love conducting Science experiments with food because it is so easy to sneak in some taste tests! Did you sample any of the food you used for your experiment? What is your favourite food and why?
Your fantastic experiment along with your detailed blurb have turned this into an ‘Outstanding Blog Post’, this means you will get extra Summer Learning Journey points for this activity!
Ngā Mihi Nui
Charlotte Visser
Summer Learning Journey
Kia Ora Charlotte,
It’s Isa here. Thank you for your comment. I liked reading what you said about my Experiments with Eleanor activity. The results were interesting, and some of them did surprise me because I didn’t expect certain foods to react the way they did.
I did taste a few things while I was doing the experiment. My favourite foods are mango and chocolate because mango is sweet and chewy, and most chocolate tastes good no matter what kind it is.
From Isa