Proving Science Can hold upward Fun: Bouncy Ball Recipe


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We are good over halfway through the Summer too if yous are anything similar me I swear I am going to move postal if I demand heed "I'm bored" i to a greater extent than time. The Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas wants to run across to a greater extent than women come inward the fields of science, technology, engineering, too math (otherwise known equally STEM) thence they check an annual College Prep Camp for High School Girls where they instruct activities aimed to encourage involvement inward STEM fields - similar this bouncy ball recipe. I wanted to overstep it along equally it is an tardily too fun activity that volition entertain your kids too instruct them a picayune something inward the process.

Bouncy Ball recipe from Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas 


Materials:
  • Warm water
  • Borax (sold at close major grocery stores) 
  • Cornstarch 
  • Elmer’s Glue 
  • Stick 
  • 2 Beakers or drinking glass cups 
Procedure:
  1. Label i loving cup 'Borax Solution' too the other loving cup 'Ball Mixture'. 
  2. Pour 2 tablespoons warm H2O too 1/2 teaspoon borax pulverisation into the loving cup labeled 'Borax Solution'. Stir the mixture to dissolve the borax. Add nutrient coloring, if desired. 
  3. Pour 1 tablespoon of gum into the loving cup labeled 'Ball Mixture'. Add 1/2 teaspoon of the borax solution yous simply made too 1 tablespoon of cornstarch. Do non stir. Allow the ingredients to interact on their ain for 10-15 seconds too and thence stir them together to fully mix. Once the mixture becomes impossible to stir, conduct keep it out of the loving cup too start molding the ball alongside your hands. 
  4. The ball volition start out gummy too messy, but volition solidify equally yous knead it. 
  5. Once the ball is less sticky, move ahead too bounce it! 
  6. You tin shop your plastic ball inward a sealed Ziploc pocketbook when yous are finished playing alongside it.

Click here to run across a video if yous wishing a visual to help walk yous through the recipe.

The Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas, inward partnership alongside Dallas-based Texas Instruments, introduces high schoolhouse girls to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering too Math) career opportunities through hands-on experiences, similar belongings a human see too making fireworks inward a lab. Participants volition hit for college too run across STEM inward activity during the High School College Journey plan July 12 – July 17 at the University of Texas at Dallas. There are countless career opportunities inward STEM-related fields, but few women conduct keep payoff of these options. Encouraging immature women to bring together these traditionally male-dominated industries is the motivation behind this partnership too campsite experience. Girls volition acquire how to live academically successful inward college too run across how a STEM teaching tin Pb to a multifariousness of careers.

Throughout the week, girls volition experience firsthand how it feels to live inward college, network alongside professionals inward unlike industries too pass fourth dimension discovering STEM applications exterior the classroom. Subjects available to explore include biomedicine, chemistry, nutrient science, technology, engineering, province evolution too architecture. Through the activities at camp, the girls volition too acquire downwardly to the scientific discipline too roots of complex too global nutrient issues through the ‘Sow What Journey’, which is a pre-requisite for earning the Girl Scout Gold Award. To acquire to a greater extent than see www.gsnetx.org.



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