Science Week - Andrew's Experiment

During Science Week Sixth Class student Andrew Hayes tried out an experiment with the help of Miss Quirke. It went really well and he has written the instructions if you would like to try it out yourself.

How to make a lava lamp

Equipment:

Food colouring

Vegetable oil

Water

An empty bottle

Alka seltzer (fizzy tablet)

Method:

1.       Fill the bottle with water until it is a quarter full.

2.       Fill the rest of the bottle with vegetable oil.

3.       Add a couple of drops of food colouring.

4.       Drop an Alka Seltzer in to the bottle.

5.       Watch what happens.

Results:

There were lots of bubbles in the vegetable oil. It looked like a lava lamp.