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FREE KITCHEN SCIENCE LESSON · AGES 4 TO 12
Why does it fizz? Find out with The Fizz Test.
A free, ready-to-print lesson from Brave Little Bakers. Three cups, a few pantry staples and about 15 minutes. Your kids guess, test, and finally understand why baking soda and baking powder aren't the same thing.
Inside the free lesson
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A read-aloud science page
Baking soda, baking powder and bubbles, explained in kid words, plus a Dig Deeper box.
2
The 3-cup experiment
Guess first, then test which cup fizzes the most. Pantry ingredients only.
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A lab sheet for each kid
Little ones draw the three cups. Big kids write what they saw and what they learned.
WHY I MADE THIS
I used to only bake from a box.
My daughter has baked with me since she was a toddler. She's a "why" kid, and for a long time our bakes flopped: butter too cold, steps skipped, wet and dry mixed wrong. Then food science joined our homeschool. Once she knew why each step mattered, the flops stopped. Today she bakes on her own.
Friends kept asking how we got there. Brave Little Bakers is my answer, and The Fizz Test is where it starts.
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