Every year around Halloween, Mrs. Oelrichs’s Chemistry 2 class of 13 students puts on a show for the fourth grade class. The Chemistry 2 class puts on a show for an hour and a half every year the day of or the day before Halloween. The high school students do it for Halloween and dress up in different costumes. They experiment with many different things such as blowing stuff up and lighting things on fire.
Paige Remillard said, “Lauralie [Grater] and my project was making a lava lamp with oil, water, and alka seltzer tablets. The second [project] was making a pumpkin bleed foam.”
She also said this about how the fourth grade students reacted, “The kids thought the experiments were cool and fun. Some even wanted to touch the lava lamp because it looked cool.”
Lydia Otten reported, “I did an experiment with Lexy Sidwell, and we had two experiments. The first one we carved a pumpkin and they made the inside light on fire, and the fire was green. Our second experiment was we turned water into blood, but it looked more like pink blood.”
She also said, “[The fourth graders] loved it! They were very excited to see all of the experiments!”
Morgan Branson said, “We set candy on fire and played with dry ice.” And she also made a report about the kids: “They thought it was awesome.”
McKenzie Pecaut said, “We created bubbles out of dry ice and candy fire.”
Keagan Huff said, “We put hydrochloric acid and magnesium in a tube and then got the hydrogen gas it produced and lit it so it makes a loud sound.” And he also said, “Then we made hydrogen bubbles and picked them up and lit them on fire.”
These were most of the experiments that happened this year, but there are many more years for this show to come. Hope you had fun, fourth graders, and can't wait to see the upcoming experiments next year.