The Topic for September is Chemistry
 
Activity:

Make your own bubbles. This easy, fun, and inexpensive activity can teach your child the three states of matter – solid, liquid, and gas.
 

Materials:

• Distilled water


• Dawn dish detergent


• Glycerin


• Container and bubble wand


• Paints (optional)


• Dry ice (optional)

Instructions:

• 1 Cup distilled water. This water is free of minerals that could weigh down the bubbles


• K2 Tablespoons Dawn dish detergent


• 1 Tablespoon glycerin. This can be found at a pharmacy in the skin care aisle.


• Now your child can paint or decorate his/her bubble container for the homemade bubble solution

The Three States of Matter Are as Follows:

• Liquid - The bubble solution


• Gas - Air blown through the wand to fill the bubble


• Solid - The outer part of the bubble

Extra Fun:
 
For extra fun add a piece or two of dry ice (frozen carbon dioxide or CO2) to your bubble solution. It’s hours of fun! Be careful, though. Dry ice can burn your skin. Only adults should handle the dry ice with gloves!
 

Definitions:

Matter – Anything that takes up space. It has weight and mass. You can see it, touch it, smell it and feel it.

Solid – The first form of matter. Solids don’t change very much. Rocks, tables and books are solids.

Liquid – The second form of matter. All liquids contain some water. They move on their own and take the shape of the container they’re in.

Gas – The third form of matter. Gases have no shape or volume. Some you can smell and some you cannot. Oxygen is a gas. Gases must be used carefully.

Dry Ice – A solid form of carbon dioxide. Its temperature is -110oF. It is used to refrigerate or create an artificial fog effect. Dry ice sublimates instead of melting.

Sublimation – A process in which a substance is converted directly from a solid to a gas or from a gas to a solid without an intermediate liquid phase.