In this activity students use what they know about bubbles to do some impressive tricks. By experimenting with bubbles, students learn about surface tension, elasticity, minimal surface structures, and how to blow really, really big bubbles! Bubbles fascinate both children and adults with their beautiful shapes and colours. Such simple ingredients—soap and water—create mesmerizing examples of both geometry and chemistry. By experimenting with bubbles, students learn about surface tension, elasticity, minimal surface structures, and how to blow really, really big bubbles! Bubble Structure Bubbles are soap films wrapped around air. Soap films are made from soap and water. The soap film looks like a sandwich with soap as the bread on the outside and water as the filling on the inside.

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