Ingredients for Ooze in Science Class

Series Summary

If there is anything that Nickelodeon has taught this society, it is that kids love watching green slime get dumped on people. Slime and ooze and mini chemical explosions are always a favorite with children. Ask any child in America, most owned Gak to make farting noises in the middle of class, most have shaken up a coke just to watch it explode, and most have played in the mud with hopes that it was really magic ooze that would one day turn them into Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. These are impulses and desires hidden deep within the very souls of children everywhere. So why not turn those sometimes gross and messy impulses into an opportunity to learn something about science and have fun at the same time?

In this free video, expert homemaker and educator Karen Weisman teaches how to do fun science projects for children right at home. She teaches how to make ooze, foam, film canister rockets, flubber, virtual vomit, melting witches, rubber bones, and how to do water magic. Also, Karen explains the ingredients necessary for each project and the scientific importance of each project. These videos are fun, educational, and free, so start having fun while learning today!

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Karen for Expert Village let's make ooze Viva is going to show us how. We are going to need 1 cup of water, a little bit of food coloring, a spoon for mixing, a 4/4 cup measuring cup, a plastic bowl, and about 2 cups of corn starch. Are you ready take your water and pour all into the bowl. Great! Now take the food coloring we are just adding the food coloring to make a little more fun. Go ahead pour the whole thing in there it is just a few drops of food coloring. Great! That is good. Okay now take the 2/4 cup measuring cup and scoop in 3/4 cups of corn starch nice and full nice and full, there that is good. Just tap it when you put it in the bowl, turn it over, tap one, just tap the edge like this, next one, two, go ahead nice and quick, one more. Now you are going to stir that up. Okay take the spoon and stir that up you can put the cup right in the cornstarch. Stir it up until it is nice and smooth. Okay keep stirring. Now add another 2/4 cup, when it becomes to thick to stir, keep adding it, when it becomes to thick to stir we are going to stop and our ooze would be done. We are going to stir deep down to the bottom and stir that up good. Pull it up closer to you, it is still a little hard to stir but there is still a lot of liquid there. Go ahead and put another scoop in, I help you stir how about that you can put the scoop in and I will help stir, okay put another scoop in. Okay another scoop, okay this looks pretty good, I think our ooze is down that is getting really hard. Another cup? I think I need one more though it even feels funny when you stir it. Okay that is it. "