As we were eating our bed time snack this evening, I started asking my kids about why popcorn pops. My son said, " I don't know." He was interested though, so I explained that the kernels had water inside of them. I asked whether the energy was going in or coming out of the popcorn. (It's going in.) I explained that the energy going in changed the water from a liquid to a gas. We examined a popped kernel to see where the seed coat ended up.
Then my son had a better idea.
We did another popcorn experiment, soaking the kernels in water and oil and it was interesting to see what happened to them for that.
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Oh, we will definitely have to try that too!
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