Explaining Primary Science: A Guide to Theory and Practice
Second Edition
Heating and cooling experiment
This experiment will show how water reacts to extreme temperatures of hot and cold. The equipment you will need for this experiment include:
- A small empty beaker
- A bigger beaker with ice
- A flask with coloured liquid, the tube with markings on it
- A kettle
Method and observations:
- Place the flask with coloured liquid in the small empty beaker
- Pour the boiling water in the beaker and let it rest for a minute. You will see the level of liquid in the tube rising
- Now remove the flask from the beaker and place it in the beaker with ice
- Let it rest there and observe the level of the liquid in the tube falling as the liquid cools