Bonus: Digital, Google Slides/Forms/Docs version of worksheets, lessons, activities, labs & assessments. Do bubbles always make a spherical shape? Try twisting pipe cleaners into different shapes, like: stars, squares, and triangles. What shape will the bubbles be? Go outside and test your bubble solutions. Blow a bubble and catch it on your wand. Immediately start the stopwatch and time how long the bubble lasts. This will take some practice, so try it out on some extra solution before you start! You might think that it is the surface tension of the water that holds the skin of a bubble together. Actually, the surface tension of water is too strong to make a bubble. You can try yourself to blow a bubble with plain old water, it just won't work! A good bubble solution has a detergent added to it to relax the surface tension of the water, allowing it to have more elastic, stretchy properties. Now it can act more like the skin of a balloon, stretching out nice and thin, trapping air inside of the bubble like a liquid balloon. Step 6. You can also do a test with your fingers. What happens when you touch your bubble with a dry finger? It pops! Now if you wet your finger it doesn’t pop.

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Step 4. Have your child repeat dipping the straw in bubble solution and then slowly blow a bubble. You want to almost touch the surface with your straw and slowly pull away while still blowing to make a nice large bubble. This time the bubble doesn’t pop! Phillips, T., 2003. Saturday Morning Science: Elastic Water on the ISS, Science@NASA, Marshal Space Flight Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Retrieved June 6, 2007.

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To do this type of experiment you should know what the following terms mean. Have an adult help you search the Internet, or take you to your local library to find out more! This week in our STEAM Storytime series we were inspired by the book, The Bubble Factory written by Tomi DePaola Use the materials to create your own bubble lab. Safety goggles are optional but they do make it fun!

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In this experiment, you investigated the presence or absence of an additive like glycerin or corn syrup. What about the concentration? If you are good at timing bubbles, you can try this experiment using different concentrations of glycerin or corn syrup in your solutions. How little is too little, and how much is too much to add?If the learning doesn’t convince you to try this with the kids, remember this involves bubbles. Making bubbles! What kid doesn’t like bubbles? Read this interesting article about how thin films of water and surface tension are different in space: In a container of water, the tiny water molecules are attracted to each other, and consequently they are always pulling on each other. At the surface of the water these water molecules are attracted to the water molecules around and below them, but have no water molecules above them to be attracted to (since it is just air). This is what creates surface tension. The water molecules at the surface of the water do not want to move up, away from other water molecules, which makes water have a high surface tension. In fact, it is too high to form bubbles.

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Step 3. Have your child liberally spray the surface with water (we used a marble board but you can use anything that can be sprayed and wiped with water like a counter top). Step 1. Put your bubble solution in a container that will cover at least half the straw when added inside Pepling, R., 2003. What's That Stuff? Soap Bubbles, Chemical and Engineering News, Volume 81, Number 17, pp. 34, publication of the American Chemical Society (ACS). Retrieved June 6, 2007. Now, can you make a bubble in a bubble in a bubble? How many can you make?! This is fun and challenging for kids as they start and stop and try again.Have you ever tried Magic Bubbles? They are bubbles that resist evaporation, and are so stable that you can even touch them without popping. The secret to this formula is that a polymer (an elastic molecule) has been mixed into the solution which adds to the elastic properties of the bubble while helping to prevent evaporation. Try adding your own secret ingredients to your bubble mix. Does it change the physical properties of the bubble? Here are a few suggestions: The Safety Bubble is a portable bench mounted re-circulatory fume hood that can be used to provide many different types of safety or controlled environment. It protects the operator and laboratory environment from exposure to chemical vapours and airborne particulates. Safe design protects the operator and lab environment from exposure to chemical vapours and airborne particulates. Read the book, The Bubble Factory. Discuss the different types of bubbles created in the bubble lab.