Limestone Experiment!

During this week, we did some science experiments. We got to choose our own teams and we would them choose a box or bag that contains the items we need to do our experiment. Margaret, Aleena, Mervlyn, Ash and I choose a Limestone experiment. This blog will show you what to do and what you"ll need to do this experiment if you would like. Its really simply and you may only need to buy 1-2 things. Lets get started!

Things you will need:

1. Garden Lime (any brand will do, it just needs to be garden lime)

2. Water (tap water works best)

3. Bowls

4. Something to stir with (we chose a popsicle stick)

5. Food colouring (this depends if you want your rocks to have the colour of limestone)

6. Black paper

Lets do this:

1. First put some of the garden lime into the bowl and add tiny amounts of water to it and stir. It needs to be like dough where you could mold it.

2. Add some food colouring if you want to create a more suitable colour for your limestone.

3. When you have you 'limestone' dough, roll them into balls or put blobs of it onto the black paper and let your stones dry. This could take 1 whole day.

When your stones have dried, you could get some normal water or vinegar, pour it into a bowl or tall glass and drop your limestone into the liquid. Watch the stone and liquid react with each other.

HAVE FUN!!!!!!

This is a great and fun experiment to do with friends and family. Predict what will happen and them see if your prediction was right or wrong.

I hope you enjoyed this blog post. Try this experiment at home and see what others think of it. Until next time, I'll see you all on my next blog! Bye!!!!