{"id":222,"date":"2018-07-08T15:49:18","date_gmt":"2018-07-08T15:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=222"},"modified":"2018-07-13T02:22:20","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T02:22:20","slug":"exploring-water-and-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/07\/08\/exploring-water-and-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring Water and Oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Materials<\/h3>\n<p>Large Zip-loc baggie (1 or 2 gallon-size)<br \/>\nBaby oil<br \/>\nWater<br \/>\nBlue food coloring<br \/>\nClear duct tape or packing tape<\/p>\n<h3>Directions<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-223 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2017\/03\/large_news908286_829482-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Two kids painting\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2017\/03\/large_news908286_829482-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/files\/2017\/03\/large_news908286_829482.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/h3>\n<p>In a liquid measuring cup, place 1\/4 cup water. &nbsp;Add several drops of blue food coloring and mix. Pour the blue water into the Zip-loc baggie. Add 2 tablespoons of baby oil to the water. Zip the baggie closed and reinforce all edges using clear duct tape. This also helps secure the bag to the table. Invite your child to explore using fingers across the baggie. &nbsp;Observe how the oil and water don&#8217;t mix.<\/p>\n<h3>Lesson Extension<\/h3>\n<p>Place&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.constructiveplaythings.com\/catalog\/product\/view\/id\/50206\">See Thru Buttons<\/a>&nbsp;or shapes in primary colors in the baggie. Observe what happens when blue buttons or shapes are moved on top of yellow buttons or shapes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials Large Zip-loc baggie (1 or 2 gallon-size) Baby oil Water Blue food coloring Clear duct tape or packing tape Directions In a liquid measuring cup, place 1\/4 cup water. &nbsp;Add several drops of blue food coloring and mix. Pour the blue water into the Zip-loc baggie. Add 2 tablespoons of baby oil to the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2018\/07\/08\/exploring-water-and-oil\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Exploring Water and Oil&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games-and-activities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions\/227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}