Skittles Experiment

Skittles Experiment

Method:
1. 1/2 fill a petri dish with water
2. Carefully place 4 differently coloured skittles evenly spaced around the outside of the petri dish.

Hypothesis:
I think that the water will take all of the colour off the skittles and make the water the colour.

Scientific Reasoning:
The skittles are made of sugar and food colouring. As the sugar dissolves the food colouring moves over the water with sugar until it cannot move any further because of the colours.

1. What questions arose in your mind as you did the activity?
If the skittles would dissolve?
Would the skittles would lose their colour?
2. What could you do to see if your ideas are correct?
By waiting till all of the skittles lose there colour.