Materials Required:l Fresh eggl Bowll Hot tap water Procedure: Place the fresh egg in the bowl, then fill the bowl with hot tap water. Set the bowl on a table or counter top and watch closely as the experiment sits quietly for several moments. You will see a tiny stream of bubbles rising from the […]
Chapter 11 John Thornton was eating dinner when Buck dashed into camp and sprang upon him in a frenzy of affection, overturning him, scrambling upon him, licking his face, biting his hand, ”playing the general tom-fool,” as John Thornton characterized it, the while he shook Buck back and forth and cursed him lovingly.For two days
Chapter 10 When Buck earned sixteen hundred dollars in five minutes for John Thornton, he made it possible for his master to pay off certain debts and to journey with his partners into the East after a fabled lost mine, the history of which was as old as the history of the country. Many men
Materials Required:l Cucumberl Vegetable parerl 2 bowlsl Waterl 1 tablespoon salt Procedure: Using a vegetable parer and moving it away from your fingers, peel the skin from a fresh cucumber. When the skin has been removed, continue to use the parer to slice the cucumber into strips. Divide the strips into 2 bowls, then add
Materials Required:l 5 tablespoons pure laundry soap or detergentl 2 cups warm tap waterl 4 tablespoons saltl Large glass Procedure: Place the laundry soap into 1 cup of water. Stir until the soap is dissolved. Next, place the salt into another cup of water and stir until the salt is dissolved as much as possible.
Chapter 9 At a particularly bad spot, where a ledge of barely submerged rocks jutted out into the river, Hans cast off the rope, and, while Thornton poled the boat out into the stream, ran down the bank with the end in his hand to snub the boat when it had cleared the ledge. This
Materials Required:l Candlel Aluminium pie platel Matchesl 1 teaspoon baking sodal Glass (not plastic) measuring cup, marked formillilitersl VinegarThe help of one of your parents Procedure: Set a candle on an aluminium pie plate in the sink. Then ask one of your parents to light the wick. While the candle is burning, place the teaspoon
Chapter 8 When John Thornton froze his feet in the previous December his partners had made him comfortable and left him to get well, going on themselves up the river to get out a raft of saw-logs for Dawson. He was still limping slightly at the time he rescued Buck, but with the continued warm
Materials Required:l ¼ cup waterl ¼ cup laundry bluingl ¼ cup saltl 1 tablespoon ammonial Jarl Spoonl Charcoal briquettesl Bowll Food colouring in various coloursl Old pie tin Procedure: Place the water, laundry blue, salt, and ammonia in a jar, and stir thoroughly with a spoon. Set a single layer of charcoal briquettes in a
Materials Required:l Red and blue food colouringl ½ cup waterl Bowll 1 heaping cup cornstarchl 2 marbles Procedure: Add a drop of red and a drop of blue food colouring to ½ cup of water. Pour this into a bowl. Add the cornstarch and mix well. Pick up a handful of this goo and roll
Materials Required:l Flavoured gelatin dessertl Small dishl Eyedropperl Waterl Fork Procedure: Pour a box of flavoured gelatin into a small dish. The powder should be at least 1 inch deep. Using an eyedropper, squeeze a drop of water onto the surface and let it soak in. Then continue squeezing single drops of water onto the
Chapter 7 Here the train was halted. The Scotch half-breed slowly retraced his steps to the camp they had left. The men ceased talking. A revolver-shot rang out. The man came back hurriedly. The whips snapped, the bells tinkled merrily, the sleds churned along the trail; but Buck knew, and every dog knew, what had
Materials Required:l Silver or silver-plated objectl Silver polishl Clothl Rubber bandl WaterProcedure: Ask an adult in your family if you may borrow a silver or silver-plated object, such as a spoon. The experiment will not harm the piece. Polish the object with an old cloth and some silver polish. Wrap a rubber band tightly around
Chapter 6 The Thirty Mile River was comparatively coated with ice, and they covered in one day going out what had taken them ten days coming in. In one run they made a sixty-mile dash from the foot of Lake Le Barge to the White Horse Rapids. Across Marsh, Tagish, and Bennett (seventy miles of
Materials Required:l Glassl Waterl 2 tablespoons saltl Spoonl Cotton string, 6 inches longl Washer or nutl Metal kitchen tongsl MatchesThe help of one of your parents Procedure: Fill a drinking glass about halfway with water, and add 2 tablespoons of salt. Stir with the spoon. Soak the cotton string in the salt solution for at