Einstein's Birthday!!!

Lesson: Science

Class: Miss White - 6W Year: 2015 - 2016

For Albert Einstein's 137th birthday, Year 6 celebrated with two fun experiments. For the first one, we mixed bicarbonate of soda with vinegar to inflate balloons. We later found that the more bicarbonate soda added to the vinegar the larger the balloon expanded. This is due to the baking soda being a base and the vinegar being an acid and therefore when mixed CO2 (carbon dioxide) is released, creating a fully inflated balloon. After this experiment we carried out a popcorn blind taste-test where we tasted four different brands of popcorn: Tescos, Walkers, Aldi and Uncle Sams. The majority of Year 6 voted for Tesco's popcorn- we recommend you try some- although Aldi came in a close second! To end the exciting events we sang happy birthday and ate yummy cakes in honour of the great, German, theoretical physicist. Take a look at some of our pictures!