{"id":755484,"date":"2010-01-01T14:16:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T22:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/2010\/01\/01\/two-science-experiments-2\/"},"modified":"2010-01-01T14:16:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-01T22:16:00","slug":"two-science-experiments-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/2010\/01\/01\/two-science-experiments-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Science Experiments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This first experiment had the potential to being really neat, but alas, we did not have the right &quot;ingredient&quot;.&nbsp; The idea was to place dried beans in a small plastic container, add water, and place the lid over it.&nbsp; We hypothesized that the beans would soak up the water and increase in size.&nbsp; The added volume would cause the lid to pop off. <\/p>\n<p>Well, it kind of worked.&nbsp; We did not have any beans, so I used split peas (or lentils? I don&#8217;t recall)&nbsp;instead.&nbsp; They cause the lid to expand, but not pop.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2696\/4234797248_a7ea8a7ea5.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe second experiment was to see how water affects sugar.&nbsp; We colored the water blue so we could see how it climbed up the sugar tower.&nbsp; We added way too much water and caused the sugar tower to dissolve quicker than anticipated.&nbsp; It was still fun.&nbsp; I took video, but am having problems uploading it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This first experiment had the potential to being really neat, but alas, we did not have the right &quot;ingredient&quot;.&nbsp; The idea was to place dried beans in a small plastic container, add water, and place the lid over it.&nbsp; We hypothesized that the beans would soak up the water and increase in size.&nbsp; The added [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-755484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-homeschool"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=755484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}