Project 1: Grow Your Own Crystal

Details of activity

Term:1/2

Name of Activity: Grow Your Own Crystal Holiday Project

Objective of Activity: To allow us to better understand the crystallisation process

Venue: Home

Pictures/videos of Activities:

     This is a video montage of my whole adventure through this project. Hope you all will enjoy it.

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  Reflections

Wow! It's been a while since the start of the activity. Anyway, it's been quite a fruitful experience since the start.(Watch the Bloopers!) I learnt that adding too much water or sugar is bad for crystal growing.Ha ha!

By the way, this activity did tell me much more about how crystals are formed.For example one pert which I stated that the nicest crystal is the one with most surface area(I found that from internet:o), I never new that that was one factor we needed to consider. I always thought that the factor was temperature alone. Similarly, about the part where we simmered the sugar solution in hot water, it was to make sure temperature cools down slower for better crystal to form. So, to sum up, it gave me a better understanding of the filtration method of crystallisation and also a bit more on the terms used in solutes and solvent, saturation.

Well, I'm not done yet! I liked this experiment best as it was of course the first home activity I did, and for two, I gained new experiences the fun way.(err, and tedious way.Watch the Bloopers!!! So many failures!) Yup, but I disliked it for the large amount of resources(sugar, iMovie, cups,etc) that I had to use and for the fact that more had to be used with every failure. Come to think of it, failure is good anyway, so long as we learn from our mistakes.

So, to end this off, I'll like to thank all the people in my credits list again(Mr Tan, mum, Pianoguys, iMovie) and anyone else I have left out(I hope not?). Without you all, I would never have completed this activity. I hereby draw my postings for the term to an end. Thank you all viewers.