Your name: Mackenzie Potter Activity Name: Baking Soda & Water experiment

Domain: Aesthetic
Developmental Goal: Use a variety of tools, techniques, and processes in the arts
MI Standard: Show eagerness and pleasure when approaching learning through the creative
arts.
Content Objective:
Prediction- A guess about what will happen.
Chemical reaction-When two chemical materials come together to create a new material.
Experiment-An activity where you test things out.
Teach colors- brown, red, white, yellow, blue

Materials:
Baking trays (Aluminum)
Baking soda
Kool-Aid
Water
Pipettes

Procedure:
1. Introduce the activity to the children. Say, “Today we are going to be doing an
experiment with baking soda and water. When the Kool-Aid water is dropped into
the baking soda there is a chemical reaction, which is when two materials come
together to make something new. You are first going to make a prediction, or
guess about what will happen.” Allow time for each child around the table to give their
prediction. The teachers will write down these predictions.
2. Then say, “Now use the dropper to drop the Kool-Aid water into the baking soda
tray.”
3. Talk about the chemical reaction that is happening when the baking soda and vinegar
mix together. Say, “The baking soda is bubbling when the Kool-Aid is put onto it
because there are tiny parts, called atoms, inside of the baking soda that are
breaking it apart.”
4. As the children are dropping the water into the baking soda say the colors you see. Say,
“I notice Susie is using blue.”
5. Ask the children what colors they are using to put in the baking soda while they are
using the droppers

Extensions:
Have the children think of other things that might cause a reaction. Say, “I’m wondering if you
can think of anything else that you know of that causes a reaction?”
Simplifications:
Provide visuals of what a chemical reaction is. (posted at bottom)
Adaptations and Modifications:
Provide hand over hand assistance to grip the pipette and empty it out into the tray.

Evaluation Plan:
Write two anecdotes about a prediction a child makes.

Simplification visuals