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HOW SCHOOL STUDENTS ARE PARTICIPATING IN
PROJECTS AND EXPERIMENTING HOUSEHOLD PRODUCTS?
By Sirigiri Rajesh
the soap in soft water produced
School Students are interested in lather.
doing experiments with household
products. Some of experiments and Washing soda is used to remove
projects are: hardness in the water.
Take an egg and make a hole at We all know sugars and salts in
top of the egg. The fluid in the our house. When these are placed
egg will flow outside. Now a thin in water then it dissolves and
layer is visible inside the egg. becomes hypertonic / hypotonic
This layer is called cell solutions. In sweets like jams and
membrane. Collect this jellies we use more sugar -then it
membrane and note down the becomes like a hypertonic
observation. solution and helps not to spoil the
products. The hypertonic solution
* Collect waste water from your kills the microbes and fungi
kitchen or from surroundings, which are attacking it. In this
and take filter paper into your way the jams and jellies remain
hands, now by placing the filter for longer.
paper on an empty breaker, pour
the waste water on the paper. Children used to think creatively
Now we can see dust particles on and started writing essays in
the surface of the filter paper. home or about their houses.
Note down the observations. Many children interested in
writing poems or essays from
Take a potato and peel it and
make a square shaped hole. Now home.
place the potato in a hypotonic Some are interested in painting
solution, after some time we can and some are interested in
see that the water content inside drawing etc.
the potato increases.
Many children are
Many are playing with soaps, preparing good home medicines
soaps contain sodium and by knowing their important
potassium ions. Scrub the soap in example: turmeric powder,
hard water and in soft water, we neem, etc.
can see that the soap in hard
water did not produce lather and They will take empty vessels and
fill it with water then they will
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