Michael Mahoney

My experiment is Exploding Canisters. All you need for this expiriment is a film canister, water, and alka-seltzer. What you need to do is put the water in the flim canister, then you put the alka-seltzer in the canister then quickly put the cap on the canister and step back. After you step back the canister should blow up into the air. The independent varible is the number of alka-seltzers (if you choose multiple). And the dependent varible is the height that the canister goes in the air. This is a good experiment but it is a little childish. You could improve it by adding more or sizing up the varibles. As a follow-up expiriment you could do it different sizes of the canisters.


You can find the expiriment here: http://www.sciencebob.com/experiments/filmrocket.php