skittle colours

 Aim:

I want to find out what happens when you put skittles in water

Method:

Equipment:

• 8x skittles
• Warm water
• Petri dish
• Beaker
• Paper towel

Instructions

1. Get your equipment
2. Put the skittles in the Petri dish
3. Spread the skittles out in a circle
4. Clean your beaker
5. dry with paper towel
6. fill beaker half way with warm water
7. Gently pour the water in the middle of the Petri dish so that it is half full
8. Obverse what happens

Results:

Describe what happened?

 

The warm water dissolved the colour part of the skittle, and the faded colour had nowhere to go so it went to the middle of the Petri dish.  

Why did the colour move the way it did?

The warm water made the hard outer shell made out of sugar dissolve