• Question: What was your first experiment that you did as a child and what was it?

    Asked by E_kelleher to Francesca, Laura, Matthew, Andrew, Rebecca on 18 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Matthew Camilleri

      Matthew Camilleri answered on 18 Nov 2014:

      I used to try and teach ants how to swim, although I was never successful. I also used to enjoy focusing sun light on straw in order to burn it, and I think that in reality that would have been my first ever experiment.

    • Photo: Andrew McKinley

      Andrew McKinley answered on 18 Nov 2014:

      My first experiment I remember was with cabbage water; and using the water from boiled red cabbage to test whether things were acidic or alkali (the opposite of acid) – the purple cabbage water went red with vinegar, and then yellow when adding cleaners!

      I guess I got started early on ‘colour’ 🙂

    • Photo: Laura Schofield

      Laura Schofield answered on 18 Nov 2014:

      My earliest memory of doing experiments was making a volcano with my older sister. We made a volcano using cardboard and papier-mâché and filled it with vinegar, bicarbonate of soda and a LOT of red food dye! Needless to say it went everywhere and my mum wasn’t very impressed with the newly dyed curtains!

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