01

CAPILLARY
ACTION
 2 cups or glasses of the
same size
paper towel
water
food color

MATERIALS
 PROCEDURE
STEP 1
Line up the two plastic cups/glasses in a row.
STEP 2
Fill one of them with water. You may add food coloring and mix it in water.
STEP 3
Fold each paper towel in half lengthwise to form a “V” shape. The V should be
only slightly taller than your glasses. If necessary, rip or cut a little bit off each
end of the V to make it shorter.
 PROCEDURE
STEP 4
Use one paper towel to connect each pair of adjacent glasses. The longer
side of the tissue should be placed on the one that contains water and the
shorter one on the empty cup/glass.
 PROCEDURE
STEP 5
Proceed with the next experiment for the mean time. This
experiment goes very slowly. You may take a video to record what
happens.
 Questions
1. After setting up. What do you think will happen in this
experiment?
2. Did some of the water from the glass/cup filled with water
transferred to your empty cup? How long? In minutes.
3. What property of liquid do you think is
responsible for this? Refer to your General
Chemistry 2 book and try to explain.
01

FLOATING
PAPER CLIP
 large bowl or pan
water
paper clip
liquid dishwashing soap

MATERIALS
 PROCEDURE
STEP 1
Fill the bowl with water. Put the paper clip on the top of water and observe
how it sinks.
STEP 2
Now find out if you can use surface tension to float the paperclip. Gently lay
the paperclip flat on the surface of the water. Even though the paperclip is still
denser than the water, the strong attraction between the water molecules on
the surface forms a type of "skin" that supports the clip.
 PROCEDURE
STEP 3
Once the clip is already floating, add some liquid soap in the tip of the bud
and carefully dip it beside the floating paper clip.
STEP 4
Try floating a paper clip now that the water has soap in it. What happens?
STEP 5

You can try floating other things on top of the water also — pepper floats well
until you add dish soap. Can you find any other light items that will float?
Questions
1. What are the other items that you were able to float on
water?
2. Why were we able to get the paper clip to float on
water?
3. What did happen to the paperclip after
we added a couple drops of dish soap or
detergent to the water? What could be the
explanation for this?
01

OOBLECK!
 newspaper large bowl or pan
measuring cups food coloring (if you want)
1 cup of dry cornstarch 1/2 cup of water

MATERIALS
 PROCEDURE
STEP 1
Put newspaper down on your counter or
table top.
STEP 2
Put the cornstarch into the bowl. Add a
drop or two of food coloring. (Use whatever
colors you like.) Add water slowly, mixing
the cornstarch and water with your fingers
until all the powder is wet.
 PROCEDURE
STEP 3
Keep adding water until the Oobleck feels
like a liquid when you're mixing it slowly.
Then try tapping on the surface with your
finger or a spoon. When Oobleck is just
right, it won't splash--it will feel solid. If you
Ooze is too powdery, add a little more
water. If it's too wet, add more cornstarch.
PROCEDURE
STEP 4
Play around with your Oobleck!
Pick up a handful and squeeze it. Stop squeezing
and it will drip through your fingers.
Rest your fingers on the surface of the Oobleck. Let
them sink down to the bottom of the bowl. Then try
to pull them out fast. What happens?
Take a blob and roll it between your hands to make a
ball. Then stop rolling. The Oobleck will trickle away
between your fingers.
Put a small plastic toy on the surface. Does it stay
there or does it sink?
Questions

1. Does the Oobleck have a high or low viscocity?

2. Do you think the Oobleck is a solution, a colloid or a
suspension?
3. What are the two substances in this mixture?

4. When you mixed the two substances, did

a physical or chemical change occur?
 What Behaved like which
What did we do?
happened? state of matter?

Try to cut Oobleck

Slap the top of Oobleck in

the bowl

Pour some Oobleck into

your hands and roll it into
a ball

Make an Oobleck snake

and pull it apart quickly
01

DROPS ON
COINS
 Water
Soapy water
dropper
2 coins

MATERIALS
PROCEDURE
STEPS:
Put as many drops of each water and soapy
water on 2 different coins down on your
counter or table top and count the
maximum drops you can add on them
before it spills.
Questions
Observations:

1. How many drops of pure water fit onto the

coin?
2. How many drops of soapy water fit onto the
coin?
3. Explain the difference on two coins.
4. What property(s) of liquids is demonstrated
here? How?
01

TESTING THE
SOLUBILITY
OF COMMON
LIQUID
SOLVENTS
 Rubbing alcohol
Table salt
Cooking oil
sugar
soft drinks
baking soda
water
sand
any material for stirring
4 plastic cups (same size)

MATERIALS
PROCEDURE
STEPS:
1. Fill the four plastic cups with the indicated
solvents on the table of the next slide.
2. Try to dissolve the provided solutes in
different solvents and record whether they are:
soluble, insoluble, or slight soluble.
PROCEDURE
STEPS:
Create a line graph for each solvent to describe
the solubility of each solutes using the example
in the next slide.
Soluble

slightly
soluble

insoluble
 Solutes

Solvents sugar salt sand baking soda

water

cooking oil

rubbing
alcohol

softdrinks