Creative Science : Making lemons out of lemondae

Things are progressing very fast here with our homeschooling. So fast I can barely keep up with all the blogging, facebook updates and pictures. I am overdue. This week I will be posting some of the activities we have been doing over the past 2 weeks. Enjoy and share your idea/comments.... with that said...on to the lemonade!

I woke up to my little one (the preschooler) asking me to make lemonade for her. She literally woke me up with a bag of lemons. So with one eye open I said ok just to get her out of the room so I could steal 5 more minutes of sleep. But as that sleep never came, I began to think of our daily schedule and how science was on the to-do-list for the 2nd grader. And then a light bulb went off...




I was going to incorporate making lemonade into a science project. That way the 2nd grader still received her science lesson and the pre-k diva got her lemonade out of me all in 1 squirt. So... I did a bunch of research and decided to go with the science experiment of making lemonade and lemonade soda. The lesson involved learning about acids and bases, and through baking soda seeing how the 2 intermixed.


We founded the basis of this experiment from this site...http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/experiments/lemonade.html and we were on our way.

Little Miss L - Tasting a little bit of the lemon to make sure its just right..

Miss 2nd grade J squeezing her lemons to make the lemonade. She learned a lot about acid and bases that day

The final result after adding baking soda - the base. A nice bubbling surprise that needed Lots and Lots of sugar to taste good.