2.+Responding+With+Wonderment+&+Awe

RESPONDING WITH WONDERMENT AND AWE When I was little, chemistry meant pouring colorful colorful liquids into vials and making things go -boom-. Never in any chemistry class have I even come close to doing such things. It was, on the contrary, always boring experiments like measuring the growth of plants or something like that.

The other day, we finally got to do something dangerous. That class period, there were a total of six stations where we got to play with fire and create dangerous gases. It was the first time I'd ever been that amazed at chemistry labs. My lab partners and I enthusiastically jumped from station to station, bolting for the most dangerous one first. We then continued on to burn different object like sugar, charcoal, something that smelled like moth balls... But the thing was we weren't bored at any point. These were experiments which had reactions we weren't able to predict, and there was an air of wonderment and awe when we witnessed the reactions.

Below is a video of blue gas we created in the "most dangerous lab". I never actually thought you could create blue gas (except I just realized that stoves and fires have blue gas but thats ok) so we were all excited to see what would come of this experiment .  //10/14/11//