Mad Science Week: Experiment #3, Dancing Raisins

The name of this experiment is quite misleading.  I mean, QUITE misleading.  We had big expectations of raisins hopping up and down in our glass, but we couldn't have been more disappointed.  There couldn't have been an easier experiment to perform, so I know we did it right.  Ugh.  Botch number two of three experiments.  That doesn't make for a very good success rate.  Anyway...

We got our supplies together...

...and began.  There's water in the glass on the right, and we filled up the glass on the left 1/3 of the way up with soda.  After we did that, we dropped a few raisins in the water to see what would happen.  Nothing did, which we expected.

The next step was to put soda in the other glass and then drop in the raisins.

Pretty much looks like the same as the other, right?  We definitely had more bubbles, but the raisins didn't 'dance'.  The carbon dioxide was supposed to make them do some kind of boogie, but it just didn't happen.

Oh, well...maybe we're not very scientific people.  At least our first experiment worked out and resulted in just what we expected and hoped for.  Its been a fun week with science, and we'll keep looking for experiments to try.  Hopefully we'll have a little more luck next time.

Have a super weekend! 

Love,

Paige