Investigate Science
The Kitchen
This section contains experiments and activities that can easily be carried out with every day kitchen ingredients and equipment.
Click on the red activity title to download the experiment.
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Objective |
Activity |
Resources |
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To explore the chromatography and colour separations |
Using food dyes to separate out colours to see how they are made up. |
Food colourings, smarties, beakers, pipettes, filter paper |
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To investigate why breakfast cereal in fortified with iron |
Extracting iron from breakfast cereal and investigating why it’s added. |
Cereal, plastic beakers, hand lenses, magnets, hot water, stirrers, plastic bags |
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To investigating cake manufacture and the cake’s properties |
Evaluating crispy cakes then making your own and perfecting a recipe. |
Crispy cake ingredients and basic cooking equipment |
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To investigate the salt content in snacks |
Researching salt content of snacks and creating an experiment to measure salt content. |
Salted snacks, filter paper, beakers, funnels, scales, hand lenses |
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To investigate how a volcano erupts |
Creating a volcano from playdough and learning how to take core samples. |
Film canister, vinegar, Bicarbonate of Soda, pens, playdough |
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To investigate the best rocket fuel for a film canister rocket |
Creating a film canister rocket then investigating different types of rocket fuel to find the best. |
Film canisters, lime juice, lemon juice, water, bicarbonate of soda, tissue paper, vinegar |
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To investigate how basic kitchen ingredients can be used in science experiments |
Making cornflour slime, dancing spaghetti, edible structures and badges |
Vermicelli, backing soda, vinegar, food colouring, cornflour, gummy sweets, spagetti, cocktail sticks, bread, dried pasta shapes, playdough |
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