The Frozen Project: a 6-year-olds study of crystals continues, but today we are going to share some of our bloopers. Maybe you can offer ideas of how to turn these bloopers into success…

1) We tried to examine ice cream. We froze a slide and put the ice cream on it, we put ice cream directly on the Foldscope, we put ice cream in a baggie, we tried strawberry and chocolate ice cream, we even froze the Foldscope. The outcome: sticky yummy fingers—they sure did taste good.

2) We tried to look at a prism and capture the separation of white light into a rainbow. Well, a prism is glass, and we saw straight through it. No separation of light. The outcome: pretty dancing rainbows on our walls but not on the Foldscope.

3) We tried to make frost by filling a baggie with a glass slide and our warm breath then putting the entire thing in the freezer. The outcome: nothing on the slide.

4) We tried to make frost by mixing rubbing alcohol with water and dropping this mixture onto a glass slide and putting the entire thing in the freezer. The outcome: noting on the slide.

5) We tried to examine an ice sickle in a baggie and just on the Foldscope. The outcome: water. Though we could see a little bit of the ice sickle it acted more like glass: it was pretty much see through. (We are starting to run low on ice sickles.)

Any ideas or suggestions? Any other simple crystal experiments to try before we conclude our project?

Thanks,

6-year-old and her mom

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