Paper Towels Experiment
Record your data as you do the experiment.
Paper towels experiment. The purpose of this experiment is to find out which brand of paper towel decorator or sparkle is stronger and more absorbent. 1 cup of water an even wooden or plastic table notebook or journal graph paper. Make sure you have three of each type for a total of nine squares. The independent variable is always on the x axis.
After 20 seconds remove the towel from the beaker and squeeze as much water as you can out of the towel in to. Paper towel science experiment we ve even experimented by watching how colors move with the walking water experiment. It is the one the tester is changing. Start by cutting your paper towels into three inch square pieces.
Once you are finished calculate the average amount of water left for the 3 trials of each brand of paper towel. It will look something like this. We observe how the colors traveled up the paper towel or toilet paper and went into the next cup of coloring. Note how many pennies it takes to break through the paper towel.
The rainbow paper towel experiment teaches a few basic scientific concepts. Measure a specific amount of water and wet the paper towel thoroughly. Then slowly add pennies to the part of the paper towel stretched over the mouth of the cup. 1 stretch test viva vantage paper towels pride themselves on having a great stretch that s responsible for the.
When the paper towels are rolled up and placed between two jars they exemplify capillary action which is how liquid can move up something rather than follow the usual pull of gravity and pull down. Next fill a cup with water and get your dropper. The independent variable in this experiment is the brand of paper towel i e. Of the two brands that will be tested the sparkle brand will absorb the most liquid because it has the thirst pockets and will be the strongest because it feels thicker.
3 walking water this is a classic experiment using paper. Draw a bar graph of the average of the tests for each brand of paper towel. As you dip the towel into the water start your stopwatch. Fold and insert into the water.
2 parachutes we ve made parachutes before comparing cloth plastic tissue paper and coffee filters.