In honor of spring break at GPN, we paused our progress learning about charges and ions to have a Beach Party! We traveled down to Mr. Amore's room and we actually did two seperate yet equally cool experiments!
First we learned why sunsets are red, yellow and orange versus blue green or purple. As the light from the sub travels through more and more atmosphere , the shorter wavelengths ( blue, green, purple) cannot pass through the atmosphere to our eyes because they are short. The red, orange and yellow wavelengths are long enough though to travel through the atmosphere to our eyes. I found that so fascinating and I explained to my family his they work the next morning as we were getting up at the crack of dawn to go travel.
The other "experiment" we completeted is we "made" a fire pit to roast marshmallows on by adding 5 ml of Calciaum Acitate ( if I remember correctly) and 20 ml of alcohol to create this little blob that looked similar to wax and we then lot on fore to roast the mashmellows with. The marshmellows were good but lacked the smoky flavor wood burning fires do. Overall I think it was a very sucessful beach party! Happy spring break!!
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