• Question: what was your first experiment?

    Asked by jimbob456 to Aime, Akshat, Diana, Gemma, Judith on 23 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Judith McCann

      Judith McCann answered on 21 Jun 2011:

      I seem to remember millions of titrations at school..Urgh, I’m having flashbacks!!!

    • Photo: Gemma Sharp

      Gemma Sharp answered on 21 Jun 2011:

      In school I remember doing a pretty cool experiment where we directed different coloured lights at maggots to see what they’d do. They move away from white light, but not from some coloured lights… I can’t remember the exact results though. It was quite fun so maybe I’ll do it again one day 😉

    • Photo: Akshat Rathi

      Akshat Rathi answered on 23 Jun 2011:

      I think my first science experiment was seeing what happens when a tiny piece of sodium metal is added to a sink full of water. I think it was a great start to my career in science.

      When sodium is dropped in a sink full of water there is a tiny explosion. All of us were given a tiny piece to try it ourselves. It was so tiny that that all we saw was a ‘plop’. But at the end of it our science teacher asked us to go far away and then he threw a bigger piece into the sink. And there was a big explosion. None of us who saw that will ever forget it.

      It was cool also because after our year, the science teacher stopped doing it! 🙂

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