Baking Soda and Vinegar Experiment

Baking Soda and Vinegar Experiment

What do you need?

• Malt vinegar 
• Baking soda
• 100mls of hot water.

       

Method:

1. Put 2 1/2-tsp of baking soda into a tall glass 
2. In another glass pour 150mls of vinegar
3. Put the 100mls of hot water in the glass that has the baking soda.
4. Make sure you have a big clear area to do this in. Pour the vinegar into the glass of hot water and baking soda. Watch the experiment explode. 

Write 2-3 sentences about how this experiment is similar to an erupting volcano:

The soda and hot water act like Magma sitting at the bottom of the volcano. When you pour the vinegar into the glass, the vinegar starts to act like tectonic plates (Tectonic plates rubs against each other) the gases from the soda then separates when the vinegar touches which then erupts like a volcano…….