Lesson 22 of 30 · Matter

Experiment⭐ 30 XP🧪 Potion Kitchen

Sort the Beads

🧪Lab Brief #22

Sort the Beads.

🎯 Your mission

Predict it first. Then prove yourself right (or wrong).

⚡ The twist

Mixing two safe things doesn't always make a safe thing.

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Mind = Blown

💧 Hot water can freeze faster than cold water under the right conditions. Nobody fully understands why.

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Make a hypothesis first

Predict: will the mixture get hotter, colder, or stay the same?

What You'll Learn

You can separate a mixture of beads by sorting them by color or size.

Key Words

Tap a word to see its definition.

Materials Needed

food coloring

Safety First

Have an adult check your set-up before you start, and tidy everything away afterwards.

Steps

Step 1 — Read

Say the vocabulary words out loud. Can you repeat them?

Step 2 — Do

Mix two colors of paint together. What new color did you make?

Step 3 — Observe

What happened? Tell a grown-up what you noticed.

Step 4 — Record

Tell a grown-up your favorite part of the activity.

Check Your Understanding

Question 1

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What color do you get mixing red and yellow?

How sure are you going to be?😐 maybe

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Where you see this in real life

This is happening in your kitchen right now — every time food cooks.

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Stretch Challenge

Try this in real life this week.

Find one ingredient in a snack and look up what it does.

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For the dinner table

“What's something we cook that mixes things together this way?”

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Sort the Beads

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Sort the Beads

What You'll Learn

Key Words

Materials Needed

Safety First

Steps

Check Your Understanding

Question 1

Where you see this in real life

Stretch Challenge

For the dinner table

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