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Topic:
- Bubbles
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- Easier - Bubbles
are round pockets of air or other gases in liquid
(such as boiling water, fizzy drinks) or solid
materials (plastic, glass). Bubbles can also be a
thin, ball-shaped film of liquid that has gas
trapped inside.
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- Harder - A bubble
is a spherical mass of gas surrounded by a liquid
or solid.
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- Soap bubbles are shaped by an equilibrium between
their outward air pressure and the inward surface
tension of the soap film. The detergent molecules tend
to line up with one end pointing inward and the other
outward, making the liquid surface more stable. The
thickness of the soap film layer is due to these
detergent molecules and is uniform for all size
bubbles. Colors are seen because of the light
diffraction through the soap film.
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 - Professor
Bubbles' Bubblesphere
- http://bubbles.org/
- Find out everything that you need to know
about bubbles.
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- Bubbles
- http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/bubbles/bubbles.html
- What is so fascinating about bubbles? The
precise spherical shape, the incredibly fragile
nature of the microscopically thin soap film, the
beautiful colors that swirl and shimmer, or most
likely, a combination of all these phenomena? Let's
look at the forces that mold bubbles.
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- Blowing
Bubbles: Good Clean Fun (FamilyFun Magazine)
- http://family.go.com/raisingkids/learn/activities/feature/famf77bubbles/famf77bubbles.html
- To blow a stream of beautiful bubbles, kids
need only a casual knowledge of soap science. A
delightful way to introduce the subject is with a
homemade bubble factory.
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- Thinking
Fountain: Bubble Geometry (Univ. of
Minnesota)
- http://www.sci.mus.mn.us/sln/tf/b/bubblegeometry/bubblegeometry.html
- Create bubble wands out of found objects
(straws, pipe cleaners, strawberry baskets and coat
hangers) and have your own bubble festival (This is
a small site with pictures and some good probing
questions about bubbles).
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- Explore several of the websites
below; then complete a bubble project or
activity:
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- Bubbles and Balloons. After
learning about bubbles at Professor
Bubbles' Bubblesphere and Bubbles,
explain how bubbles and balloons are alike
and how they are different.
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- Write a Bubble Poem. Compose a
poem about bubbles. Illustrate your
poetry
with an illustration created with KidPix.
To read a bubble poem, go to an Ode
to a Bubble.
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- Have a Bubble Contest. Using a
recipe from Super
Soap Bubbles, Bubbles,
or Bubbles66,
create your own bubble solution. You can
also get good ideas at Soap
Bubbles, Bubbles-Science
World, and Amazing
Bubbles. Experiment to find out what
the best formula is; try increasing and
decreasing the ingredients. Keep a log of
your results. Visit Thinking
Fountain: Bubble Geometry and then try
constructing unique, different-shaped
bubble wands. Use different materials to
construct the wands. Find out which ones
work the best. Photograph your
competition. As a fun finale, have a
bubble gum blowing contest.
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- Try Some Bubble Experiments.
Learn more about bubbles by completing
some experiments. You can experiment by
making bubbles and antibubbles. You can
investigate what kind of milk makes the
best bubbles. Have fun with one or more of
these.
- 1) Floating Soap Bubbles http://scifun.chem.wisc.edu/HOMEEXPTS/SOAPBUBL.html
- 2) Antibubbles http://www.jtan.com/antibubble
- 3) Bubble Geometry http://www.sci.mus.mn.us/sln/tf/b/bubblegeometry/bubblegeometry.html
- 4) Which Makes Better Bubbles, Skim
Milk or Whole? http://www.biotech.wisc.edu/Education/FunFoodStuff/skim.html
- 5) Molecular Forces at Work:
Creating Soap Bubbles http://www.iit.edu/~smile/ch8709.html
- 6) Soap Films Made Easy http://home.earthlink.net/~marutgers/science/soapbasics/soapbasics.html
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- Bubblegum.com
- http://www.bubblegum.com/
- Here you can find out the ingredients and
how bubblegum is made, how to blow bubbles, and
lots more.
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- Giant
Gum Bubble
- http://www.dimensional.com/~bkelly/bgpage/index.html
- A website dedicated to people who strive to
blow bigger and bigger bubble gum bubbles.
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- History
of Chewing Gum
- http://members.aol.com/RKaczur/history.htm
- Where did chewing gum originate?
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- Bubble
Gum Science Project
- http://spidey.sfusd.edu/schwww/sch773/review/gumproject.html
- What kind of bubble gum would blow the
biggest bubble: Bubbicious, Jolly Rancher Gum,
Bubble Yum, Bazooka, or Big League Chew?
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- Chewing
Gum and Bubble Gum
- http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blgum.htm
- A little chewing gum history from Thomas Adams
tire chicle to the Diemer bubble gum.
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- More Bubbles Websites to
Explore
- The
Art and Science of Bubbles
- http://www.sdahq.org/new1198/kids/bubbles/Welcome.html
- A great site that contains bubble art, a
recipe and techniques for bigger better bubbles,
an ode to a bubble, and lots more bubble fun
including teaching how to predict a bubble
pop!
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- Bubbles
Theme Page
- http://www.cln.org/themes/bubbles.html
- This links-page connects to two types of
bubble resources: curricular resources
(information, content...) to help learn about
this topic and instructional materials (lesson
plans).
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- Antibubbles
- http://www.jtan.com/antibubble/
- Learn what an antibubble is and how to make
one.
- Related Website:
- 2) Making Antibubbles http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/amateur/antibub/antibub1.html
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- Super
Soap Bubbles
- http://www.madsci.org/experiments/archive/854588066.Ph.html
- Here you will find a recipe for a super soap
bubble mixture. The site recommends adult
supervision.
- Similar formula can be found at this
site:
- http://www.angelfire.com/oh/bubbles66/
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- Bubbles
(U.S. Dept. of Education)
- http://www.ed.gov/pubs/parents/Science/bubbles.html
- Who doesn't enjoy blowing bubbles? You can
make bubbles at home, and they can be beautiful
shapes and colors!
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- Teacher Site
- Bubbleology
(Grade 5-8, Grade 9-12)
- http://www.hood-consulting.com/amazing/lessons/bubble/bubble.html
- This integrated module will use bubbles to
investigate physics and chemistry topics
including the optics and chemistry of thin films
as well as applications in biology and
measurement.
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- Molecular
Forces At Work: Creating Soap Bubbles
- http://www.iit.edu/~smile/ch8709.html
- The webpage has a Chemistry lesson plan for
helping students discover how the terms "surface
tension," "cohesion," and "adhesion" are related
to soap bubbles.
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soap film
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bubble
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surface tension
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antibubble
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balance
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color
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adhesion
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shape
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membrane
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air
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surface
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minimal
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mixture
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cohesion
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pressure
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wand
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solid
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gas
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liquid
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diffraction
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bubblegum
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water
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wand
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solution
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balloon
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- Created by
Annette
Lamb and
Larry
Johnson,Update by
Nancy
Smith
10/01
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