Kitchen Science

It's the last week of school (officially anyway).  The kids are excited over the relaxed days of summer fun.  I'm looking forward to getting to those 'undone' and 'need to start' projects laying around the house.  But, since we are a home educating family; school never really goes on break. 
We just tweak things a bit.

Yesterday, we had some kitchen science fun

It was chemistry,

but with taste!

Why does soda pop fizz?

After pouring the water into the test tube of

citric acid and baking soda

they watched the fizz grow.

And had their answer..

"It's the white stuff, it's the white stuff that make the bubbles", yelled out Cecilia.

But how does it taste?

They added some 'artifical' flavoring....

Max chose raspberry and wasn't impressed.

Rose liked her grape and drank it up.

Cecilia took one look at Max and ran out of the room.

Suits me just fine.

The kids don't drink soda anyway.

I think we're off to a good start on our 'summer break'

Next up,

Why do cupcakes rise?