Learning about material science concepts through sodium alginate beads. In this module, kids will watch gel beads form before their eyes while learning about polymers, hydrogels, diffusion, and more!

The Floating Ink Experiment explores the concepts of surface chemistry, density, and flocculation explained in simple terms for young students to understand. On a smooth surface dish, the young student will lightly draw a picture of what they desire with an expo marker and with a sharpie. Then, the student will slowly pour water onto the smooth surface dish. The water will cause the expo marker drawing to float on top of the water, while the sharpie drawing will stay attached to the dish. ...

We will be demonstrating the effects of solvents and solutes through a variety of demonstrations. These demonstrations will include the dissolving of polystyrene in acetone, sharpie ink in ethanol, salt in water and the (failed solvation of Vaseline in water) among other solutions. ...

This module walks through what a colloid is, what an emulsion is, how colloids and emulsions relate to chemical engineering, the magic milk experiment, and how the chemistry behind the experiment. ...