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Avec leurs professeurs d'anglais et de documentation les élèves ont blogué en anglais sur le thème "science experiments". Après avoir choisi une expérience ils ont rédigé la fiche explicative de l'expérience à partir des questions suivantes : 1-Why is  this experience or invention useful ? What is its usefulness? 2-What are the materials or products used? 3- What do you have to do to achieve the experience? Can you describe precisely the different steps to achieve the experience or the invention? 4- What are the various difficulties met to achieve the experiment? 5- In which fields can we use this experiment? ( Industry, medical field, sports field, environment, everyday life…). 6- Explain the reasons why you chose this experiment and why it appealed to you? Dans un deuxième temps, les élèves ont blogué et commenté les expériences pour élire la vidéo la plus...funny!! Les professeurs : F. URVOY et L. JEAN

The slime

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This experience serves has to relax For this experience(experiment) it is necessary: -1 1/2 cups water -1 tsp borax -4 oz. glue (clear glue works best) -food colouring -Glitter -Product has lens -shaving cream First of all it is necessary to take a bowl then to pay some water Then we put some borax to thicken the slime We mix the water and the borax… After that we resume a bowl to pay some glue by mixing her with the foam shaved We add some soap in the form of foam moss then mix the set before to have put everything in the same bowl we add der the cream and to finish of food coloring agents for customized your slime We add the lense product so that the whole is assembled. There are no difficulties reproduced a slime everybody can make him. The slime can be useful in the medicine for the people under stress, it is an anti-relaxing one.

Edible water bubbles

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1-Why is  this experience or invention useful ? What is its usefulness ? It’s useful because this invention can replace the water bottle so save the material like plastic, it’s more ecologic 2-What are the materials or products used ? The products used are sodium alginate and calcium chloride but for the experience that replaces calcium chloride with calcium lactate, resulting in a membrane that is less tough. 3- What do you have to do to achieve the experience? Can you describe precisely the different steps to achieve the experience or the invention? BEFORE YOU WILL NEED :  - 1 g of sodium alginate (a natural substance derived from brown seaweed) - 5 g of food-grade calcium lactate (a type of salt that can be found commonly in cheese and gum) - A bowl filled with 1 cup of drinking water - Another bowl FIRST STEP : You have to Add 1 g of sodium alginate to 1 cup of water. Then use an immersion blender to dissolve the sodium alginate. Once you're confide

Model of lung

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1-       This experiment is used to set up an artificial diaphragm. Its utility is to make artificial diaphragm to save lives. 2 – This material is a pair or scissors, plastic bottle about 600ml large, two balloons about 30 centimeters in dimeter, a straw, rubber band, a piece of plastic, a pencil. 3- He cuts the bottle in two, puts two balloons on the top and bottom of the bottle, then he puts the balloon with the straw in the bottle. 4- The difficulty may be to use it in every day life 5- This can be used in medicine to explain the operation of a diaphragm to people to save lives. 6- I chose this experiment because  I can understand the operation of a diaphragm

Learn air compression cloud in a bottle

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1-Why is this experience or invention useful? What is its usefulness? This experience is useless for us. This experiment just serves to discover how the air is compressed. 2-What are the materials or products used? We just need a bottle and our hands. 3- What do you have to do to achieve the experience? Can you describe precisely the different steps to achieve the experience or the invention? For this experiment we need a bottle and take it normally and then turn it 8 times in the middle of the bottle then open the cap and a smoke (compressed air) comes out.     4- What are the various difficulties met to achieve the experiment? The difficulty here is to turn the bottle but once we have made a turn it is much easier. 5- In which fields can we use this experiment? (Industry, medical field, sports field, environment, everyday life…). Compressed air can be used to inflate a tire, stripping a paint surface: breathe under water. 6- Explain the reasons why you chose

MILK + SOAP = MAGIC

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1-Why is  this experience or invention useful ? What is its usefulness? This experiences useful have distact ant biutiful 2-What are the materials or products used? The material used is plate, milk, coloring, wash up soap and q-tip. 3- What do you have to do to achieve the experience? Pour the milk to the plate and blend the coloring liquid in the milk and blend the wash up soap for the coloring 4- What are the various difficulties met to achieve the experiment? Not various difficulty 5- In which fields can we use this experiment? ( Industry, medical field, sports field, environment, everyday life…). The which fields this experience not difficulty 6- Explain the reasons why you chose this experiment and why it appealed to you? I like the experience and the experience wist a lot colors

KINETIC SAND

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1-Why is this experience or invention useful ? What is its usefulness? Thank s to that we can e nt ertai n and relax. 2-What are the materials or products used? We need corn starch, colored sand, dish soap, wate r. 3- What do you have to do to achieve the experience? Can you describe precisely the different steps to achieve the experience or the invention? Mix sand with corn starch in two bowls, then put three cups of water with one cup of dish soap and blending all 4- What are the various difficulties met to achieve the experiment? There isn't difficulty, it's simple to realize this experience because the ingredients are classic. 5- In which fields can we use this experiment? ( Industry, medical field, sports field, environment, everyday life…) It's for everyday life, it doesn't concern a precise field but rather entertainment. 6- Explain the reasons why you chose this experiment and why it appealed to you? We have chose n this expe

Funny experiment: Projection of a substance

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1-Why is  this experience or invention useful ? What is its usefulness? -This experience can calm down the kids because this experience is weird with the content in the bottle wich go out from the bottle,so the superactive children can focus on it  and stay quiet. 2-What are the materials or products used? The products use are, a spoon, a bottle, baking tray, 3 tbsp warm water, 12% hydrogen peroxide, yeast, food dye, funnel, and washing up liquid. Can you describe precisely the different steps to achieve the experience or the invention? First, we take the bottle and put inside the hydrogen peroxide. Then in the bottle too, we put the food dye with the washing up liquid, and we have to blend. In another  container, we put the yeast, with the warm water, and with the funnel, we put this blending on the bottle . 4- What are the various difficulties met to achieve the experiment? This experience can dirty our house because it’s very high when the liquid go out of th

Experience to do slime

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1-Why is  this experience or invention useful ? What is its usefulness? This experiences is used to get slime. This experience is useful for  it is entertaining for the kids. It is a distressful product . 2-What are the materials or products used? Here's what you'll need: cups water borax glue (clear glue works best) Food colouring (optional) Glitter (optional) 3- What do you have to do to achieve the experience? Can you describe precisely the different steps to achieve the experience or the invention? Mix the borax into 1 cup of water In a bowl, combine 1/2 cup water, the glue, 2 or 3 drops of food colouring, and glitter. Stir well. Add the borax mixture into your bowl and stir. You will see the goo start to harden right away. Mix with your hands and set aside for a couple of minutes to dry to a rubbery consistency. You can discard the remaining water in the bowl. 4- What are the various difficulties met to achieve the experiment? It can be difficult t

Magic snow

We have choose this experience named magic snow, it’s useful because it can absorb water and created Magic snow. We can reverse the process just by adding salt. This product can absorb 200 or 300 his weight of water on magic snow. To do this experiment the products used are water and sodium polyacrylate (you can obtain from disposable diapers or buy in a garden center) and salt. The differents steps for created magic snow are to put polyacrylate sodium on water and the result will be on few seconds. After this we can at any moment reverse the process just by adding salt The only difficulty met to achieve the experiment is to find sodium polyacrylate but this experiment can be used in everyday life if we have to absorb too much water or keep it. We have chosen this experiment because it is useful and it’s used on few products like diapers or to add viscosity and thicken some products for example in cosmectics. But we think than it can be more used by people in everyday l

How to make magnetic slime ?

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1- Why is this experience or invention useful ?  This experience can be used to create a dough which is magnetic. This experience is distressful. 2- Materials or products used ? The products used in this video are white glue, some of water, Borax powder and Iron filings. 3- What are the different steps to succeed this experience ? First step is putting on a bowl a full bottle of white glue. Then you mix it with a little bit of water and a teespoon of Borax powder to make the mixture fluffy.  After this, you mix the all and the slime is finished. The last step is putting into it Iron filings and the slime  will suddently be attracted by the magnet. 4- What are the various difficulties met through this experience? The difficulties are the dosage. If you put more or less water or white glue or more Borax powder to make the slime, it will not work and the slime will not be good and fluffy. It might be too much liquid. The slime could be dangerous too if you are allergic

Generate Electricity From Vinegar At Home

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1-Why is  this experience or invention useful ? What is its usefulness? 1 ) The invention is useful because it can give electricity at all of the world for the people who doesn’t have electricity 2-What are the materials or products used? 2 ) We need white or red vinegar, 5 piece of copper wire, 5 nails, Ice Tray, One led; safety glasses. 3- What do you have to do to achieve the experience? Can you describe precisely the different steps to achieve the experience or the invention? 3) To achieve this experience, you do :                    1-Wrap a nail with the copper wire like this for all the nails                   2-Fill up 6 sections of thr Ice Tray with a vinegar                   3-you should create a circuit by unserting each nail into the vinegar  like this                   4- Place the LED in between the section that contain only one nail and one wire 4- What are the various difficulties met to achieve the experiment? 4) The difficulties are the fact

How to Make a Homemade Lava Lamp

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1-Why is this experience or invention useful? What is its usefulness? This experience is useful for children who are too active can have fun. This experiment is useful for the parents and children. 2-What are the materials or products used? For succeed this experience I put vinegar and bicarbonate of soda and oil. We have to use a glass, for this experience.   3- What do you have to do to achieve the experience? We have to blend the bicarbonate and the vinegar. Then, we add vegetable oil and we pour out blue ink. There is a reaction: we can see some bubbles. After, we put the blending on a bottle and, now, that allow children to relax. Can you describe precisely the different steps to achieve the experience or the invention? To achieve this experiment we have to use some ingredient as vinegar, an oil, an ink. We have take 4- What are the various difficulties met to achieve the experiment? The difficulties are to depart we needs a alka seltzer. But we haven

Music experiment

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1-Why is this experience or invention useful ? What is its usefulness? Use new technics of music composition. 2-What are the materials or products used? A music software, music paper and imagination. 3- What do you have to do to achieve the experience? We have need some ideas, and try to write a new music. Can you describe precisely the different steps to achieve the experience or the invention? Watch the videos. We have gathred our ideas and began to writing this ideas on the music paper. We have played the music on an instrument (piano) and we write our music on a music software. We can 4- What are the various difficulties met to achieve the experiment? Yes there is a big difficulties : Try to imitate the music on our videos. 5- In which fields can we use this experiment? ( Industry, medical field, sports field, environment, everyday life…). This experiment can be used in the music field, the use of new methods in writing composition. 6- Explain the

Slime without Borax

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1-Why is this experience or invention useful ? What is its usefulness? The slim is funny for kids and is relaxing.  It serves has to occupy hands and for have fun. It can also be to use for movies or videos 2-What are the materials or products used? •Ingredients: Liquid starch (Sta-Flo, 1/2 cup) Elmer's glue (4 or 5 oz. bottle, clear or white) Water (1/4 cup) • Additions: Food color, Glow in the dark paint, Glitter •Supplies: Bowl, Measuring cups, Plastic bag 3- What do you have to do to achieve the experience? Can you describe precisely the different steps to achieve the experience or the invention? Etape for make slime : For the slime glow: First, in a bowl, pour one bottle of white or clear blue Add ¼ cup of water . mix in at least 1-2 oz of glow in the dark paint . Next stir until it’s well mixed Now add 1/2 cup of liquid starch and stir Then kneed it until it no longer stick in your hands For activat the paint you should hold the slim on t