Gathering+Data+Through+All+Senses

//Use all your senses, stay alive, participate fully, get your hands dirty, experience it all. Don't hold back.//

//DONT HOLD BACK!//

Science is all about exploring, but what can you explore if you refuse to experience it personally? That is where your 5 senses comes into play. We observed sulfuric acid in the lab room at the back. Mrs. Knowles placed a substance inside the acid, and a good 10 minutes later, when we came back. It turned out to be this:

The chemical reaction was mind blowing. Mrs. Knowles added a small bit of substance into the clear translucent acid and its end results came out to be completely different.

As with the other senses, when my group designed our first lab - making rust nails- we used almost all the senses for this experiment. There is of course sight as first, its the most important sense in the experiment. We need our eyes to see the change of state of the nails-- whether the rust was cleaned of thoroughly or just partially. Then there is the taste. Did we swallow the nails? No, we drank the soda. But in the chemical lab, we really cant taste any of the acids and solutions. Hearing. The most memorable experience from my ear was when we burned magnesium under the bunsen burner. Once the magnesium flared, a very small cracking noise is produced from the flare, it's somewhat like a gas leak but with "cracks" that sounds periodically. I really can't relate anything to the sense of touch until we started the lesson with endothermic and exothermic reactions.. The last station asked for us to pour ammonium nitrate into 10ml of water. We knew that something is going to change with the temperature of the mixture; however, it happened to be not just a minimal inclination of temperature, the mixture went from 21.3 degrees celcius to 75 degrees. The test tube was actually too hot to hold, we had to place it on the tube rack. This just proves yet another amazing features of chemistry. : )