Scientific Report

Purpose: Science can explain how landscapes change

Title: Molecules on the move

Part Draft Writing Organization

Part Scientific Question: Does water molecules move faster
1 in hot water or cold water? Wonder
Scien What is your
tific scientific
Ques Hypothesis: We think will they will move faster in hot question?
tion water because it is hotter and the molecules will not Hypothes
freeze. We think they will freeze in the cold water. is
What is your
hypothesis?

Part We are trying to find out if molecules move faster in hot water
2 than cold water or the other way around. We also want to
know how molecules react to the temperature around them.
Intr We also want to know how molecules move. We are doing Purpose
odu this also because we think it is very interesting and cool.
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What are you
n doing and why?

Part • A clear glass filled with hot water.

2 • A clear glass filled with cold water.
• Food colouring Equipmen
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• An eye dropper t
erial
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What do you
need to do the
experiment?
Part Step 1: Fill the glasses with the same amount of water,
3 one cold and one hot.
Met
hod Step 2: Put one drop of food colouring
Steps

Step 3: Watch what happens to the food colouring. What do you

need to do?

And Our hypothesis was RIGHT!! Our hypothesis was that the
Part molecules in the hot water were going to go faster than in the
Results
4 cold water because the cold water freezes the molecules. We
now found out that the hot water lets the molecules be free and
Con speeds them up. We think that the experiment went better than What happened?
clus we thought. We now know that molecules move faster in hot What do you
ion water then in cold water. If molecules are in a cold climate they Now know?
stick together and do not move but when they are in hot water Was your
they move around more. They molecules in a solid barely move hypothesis
at all they just vibrate in place. When you heat a solid the correct?
molecules start moving around more. Why or why not?

The website we found this experiment from was

http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/experiments/movingmolecules.html