The Science Factory

Q: What do you do with a sick chemist?
A: If you can't helium, and you can't curium, then you might as well barium

Q: Anyone know any jokes about sodium?
A: Na

Helium walks into a bar,
The bar tender says "We don't serve noble gasses in here."
Helium doesn't react.

Silver walks up to Gold in a bar and says, "AU, get outta here!"

Two chemists go into a restaurant.
The first one says "I think I'll have an H2O."
The second one says "I think I'll have an H2O too" -- and he died because he was served hydrogen peroxide (H2O2)

Q: What did the scientist say when he found 2 isotopes of helium?
A: HeHe

Making bad chemistry jokes because all the good ones Argon!

Fun Science at CMS School in Kottayam. These 5th graders were so excited and quick to pick up everything that was taught, that it was a treat for us! Kids from other classes were popping their heads to demand when they were having this in their classes. Here are some pics.

Here's our summer workshops schedule for Kerala this year. If you live in Chennai, keep watching this space for our upcoming workshops there.

Dissolving science at Crossroads, Pampady, Kerala

Science Day at Giggles & Scribbles to end our 10 week Hands-On Science Workshop. The kids were fabulous!

Here are some photos from today's session on gravity at Crossroads. We had a super time with the kids!

We are super excited about starting sessions at Crossroads English Medium School, Pampady, Kerala tomorrow. Hoping to post a picture of it after the session!

We so so agree Wendy!

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Tis the season to be jolly! To bring in the holidays, we thought we would share a few experiments which we thought may specially be fun to do around Christmas and New Year time.

So for starters, here's a simple and fun activity to do at home for our younger scientists and the science behind it.

Oil and water are immiscible liquids and further oil is less dense than water and thus floats on it. Try this out! Take a plastic container lid with a tablespoon of oil on it, an ink dropper and a number of water colours (food colours work best and given the Christmas theme, we recommend that you take red and green). Pick up individual colours using the ink dropper and gently drop the colours onto their container lid of oil. The coloured water will make little bubble like drops on the oil and do not mix up. Once the creation is complete, you can gently lower a white piece of paper over the top of the container and press gently to have the work of art transferred onto the paper.

Science Funda: The coloured water remains as bubble like drops on the oil without mixing into the oil because oil and water do not mix.

Learning of science can come in different forms. We were thrilled to receive this picture from one of our 4 year old students after our session on gravity at Giggles & Scribbles. Thank you Keisha for drawing this and Priya for sharing